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This  Bibliography  -vas  prepared  at  the  suggestion  of  Mr. 
William  E.  Foster,  the  Libra'-ian  of  the  Providence  Public  Library, 
and  was  published  in  the  Bul'ftin  issued  by  that  Library  for 
Junn,  1S97. 

A  few  copies  have  been  reprinted,  in  the  hope  that  this  forni 
may  prove  serviceable  to  students  of  tiie  period  of  diRcovery. 


Providence,  Rhode  Island. 
June  24,  1897. 


G.  P.  W. 


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G.  P.  W. 


SOURCES  OF  Information 

REGAKDING 

John   and    Sebastian   Cabot^ 


"  Although  the  fact  of  their  voyaa^es  had  been  reported  by  jealous 
and  watcliful  liegers  at  the  English  Court  to  tlie  principal  cabinets 
of  the  Continent ....  the  historical  literature  relating  to  the  dis- 
covery of  America,  as  preserved  in  print,  is,  for  nearly  twenty  years 
after  the  events  took  place,  silent  as  to  the  enterprises  and  even 
the  names  of  the  Cabols.  Scarcely  anything  has  come  down  to  us 
directly  from  these  navigators  themselves,  and  for  what  we  know 
we  have  hitherto  b'^en  chietiy  indebted  to  the  uncertaifj  reports,  in 
S^  foreign  languages,  of  conversations  originally  held  with  Sebastiin 
Qabot,  many  years  afterwards,  and  sometimes  related   at  second 

Sid  third  hand  ....  For  mor*^  than  two  hundred  years  succeeding 
ese  events  there  v.as  no  mention  m.iue  of  more  vh.ni  one  voy- 
age."— Deane,  in  Winsor,  America,  lU.  7-S. 

!  The  section  of  Soi;kcbs  in  the  present  biSliographv  is  based 
(ipon  the  admirable  •'  Syllabu.-i  of  the  orii|-inal  contemporary  doc- 
inients  which  refer  to  the  Cabots,  to  thei-  lives,  and  to  their  voy- 
itfes,  M76-i;s7,"  which  Mr.  Harrisse  prep.ired  tor  his  yohn 
Cabot  the  discoverer  of  North  America  and  Sebastian  his  son, 
Condon,  1896,  pp.  387-469.  From  these  eighty  pages  have  been 
aken  the  statements  giving  the  exact  location  of  the  manuscripts 
sited  below,  and  m my  reference-;  to  printed  books.  The  latter  have 
h  most  instances  been  verified  by  examination  of  the  volunie  in 

Iuestion.     Where  these  were  not  available  in  Providence,  I  have 
sed  the  copies  belonging  to  Harvard  University  or  to  the  Boston 
Public  Lii.rary.* 

.Henry  Harrisse,  in  his  Jean  et  Sibastien  Cabot,  leur  origine 
i  leurs  voyages,  printed  in  iSC^  the  most  author'tative  text  he 
.<>rld  obtain  of  every  document  or  extract  whicli  thi'ows  any  light 
in  the  lives  and  character  oi  the  father  and  son,  upon  whose 
jeecis  England  bases  her  '  aim  to  the  discovery  of  the  North 
Imeilcan  mainland  in  1497. 

,The  comprehensive  natu.e  of  Mr.  Harrisse's  very  careful  and 
'iorous:h  work  renders   it  unnecessary  to  refer  specifically 


ch  case  to  the  pages  in  his  volume  where  are  printed  the  per- 

lent  passages  from  documents  and  narratives  which   are  cata- 

^gued  below.    The  few  cases  where  this  volume  has  been  found 

Icomplete  are  such  as  are  noted  as  printed  in   Mr.   Harrisse's 

\abot. 


y  Including  works  written  or  printed  during  the  XVL  century, 
Intaining    references    to    the    Cab   is.     Including    also    modern 

jrks  whose  chief  value   is   due  to  the  contemporary  documents 

jlating  to  Cabot,  which  they  contain. 

'  The  number  following:  some  of  the  titles  is  the  call-number  in 
J*rovidence  Public  I.,ibrary.  Books  which  were  consulted  at 
Providence   Athenajum,   the  Boston    Public    Library,    Brown 

liversiiiy,  or  Harvard  University  Libraries,  are  designated  by  the 

lers,  respectively,  A,  B.P.L.,  B,  and  H. 


A  NEW  Interlude  and  a  merj  of  the  nature  of  the 
iiij.  elementes  declaryinge  many  proper  poyntes  of 
Phjlosophy  Naturall  and  of  Dyvers  Straunt^e  Landys 
and  of  Dyvers  Siraunge  Effecies  and  Causis. 

The  only  copy  now  known  to  exist  ot  this  little  volume  of 
versf,  which  was  |>robiihly  printed  in  London  between  1510  and 
1520,  is  in  the  Rritish  Museum. 

It  has  been  reprinted  in  Dodsley,  Select  Collection  of  old 
English  plays,  (Hazlitt  edition,  I.  i-i;o),  O9S01.J50  2) ;  and  bv 
the  Percy  Society ,  edited  by  llalliwell,  vol.  xxii,  1848, 
(132.5.22). 

The  passages  "  containing  the  first  allusion  to  the  American 
discoveries  yet  found  in  English  literature  "  are  on  pp.  28-33  of 
the  Percy  Society  edition. 

They  have  been  reprimed  in  NicnoLLS,  Caio/,  91-98,(3074  17,) 
where  it  is  suggested  that  "  the  Experyens  herein  depicted  was 
none  other  than  Sebastian  Cabot  himself."  Also  reprinted  in 
WiNSOR,  America,  III.  14-16  (20S.1  3) ;  Pavne,  America, 
239-241,  (208.9.1);  and  by  HaUE,  Amer.  Antiquarian  Society, 
21  October  iS^S,  29-30,  (040.8.6). 

American  history  leaflets. 

Documents  describing  the  voyage  of  John  Cabot  in 
1497. 

In  American  Hintory  Leaflets,  (New  York,  Lovell),  No.  ix. 
May,  1893,  pp.  14.     (238.17.) 

Edited  by  Professor  Edward  Channing  of  Harvard.  Con- 
tains good  texts  of  all  the  important  sources  lor  the  1497  voy- 
age. 

Arber. 

The     first     Three     English 
[?   I5ii]-i555    A.    D.      Being 
compilations,   &c.,   by  Richard 
ward  Arber. — Birmingham,  22  June,  1S85. 

pp.  xlviii-(-4o8.    410, 

This  volume  contains  the  interlude  of  the  Four  Elements, 
and  the  translation  of  Munster,  Treatyse,  1553,  and  of  Martyr, 
Decades,  1555,  entered  beiow  under  Eden. 

Ayala. 

[Dispatch  from  Pedro  de  Ayala,  the  junior  Spanish 
ambassador  in  England,  to  Ferdinand  and  Isabella, 
dated  (London)  25  July,  1498. 

The  original  document,  written  in  cipher,  is  at  Simancas(/'rtifro- 
nato  Real,  Capii.  con  Inglaterra.     Leg.  3,  fo.  198.) 

An  Enjrlish  translation  is  in  BERGifNKoTH,  Calendar  (Spain)  I. 
no.  210,  176-177;  lomitting  an  important  passage  given  in  IIak* 
RISSE,  Cabot,  396,  (3774.2). 

The  passasies  referring  to  "  another  Genoese  like  Columbus  " 
are  reprinted  in  Markham,  Journals,  20S-209;  in  Hale,./4;«.  An- 
tiquarian Society  Proceedings,  21  Oct.  iS6^,  p.  25-26;  Prowsk, 
Newfoundland,  39,  (20c,  5.15) ;  Histor.  Mag.  xiii.  134-13S1  (250.1.13) ; 
NiCHOLLS,  Bristol,  \\\.  20.^. 

4 


Books  on  Atnerica. 
chiefly  translations, 
T=''',c:i,  edited  by  Ed- 
H. 


./^r*JJ 


Bklleforest. 

La  cosmographie  vniverselle  de  tovt  le  monde.  Aii- 
teur  en  paitie  Mvnster,  inais  beaucoup  plus  augmen- 
t^e  par  Francois  de  Belle-forest,  Coniingeois,  tant  de 
ses  recerches,  coinme  de  I'aide  de  plusieurs  menioires 
enuoyez  de  diiierses  V'illes  de  Fiance,  par  homines 
amateurs  de  Thistoire  et  de  leur  patrie.  —  Paris, 
Chesneau,  1575. 

a  vols,  in  36.  maps,  folin. 

See  II.  column  2175,  for  the  reference  to  Cabot's  search  for  the 
north-west  passage. 

Bkrgenroth. 

Calendar  of  Letters,  dispatches,  and  state  papers, 
relating  to  the  negotiations  between  England  and 
Spain,  preserved  in  the  archives  at  Simancas  and  else- 
where, 14S5(-1543.)  Edited  b^'  J.  A.  Bergenroth. — 
London,  i862(-i895.)     H. 

13  volumes,  folio. 

The  Rolls  Serie<«  of  Spanish  documents  is  now  being  continued 
by  Mr  .Martin  A.  S.  Hume. 

For  the  important  light  thrown  upon  the  Cabot  qu  stion  by  the 
documents  brought  to  light  by  Mr.  Bergenroth,  see  notes  under 
Ayala  and  Gonzales  de  Puebla. 

Cited  as  Rkkgenkoth,  Calendar  {Spain), 

Bkrtius,  Petrus. 

P  Bertij  Tabvlarvm  Geographicarvni  contractarvm 
Libri  septem. — Amsterodami,  ludoci  Hondij,  1618. 
pp.  S39,  oblong  Svo. 
A  portion  of  tne  Cabot  legends  are  printed  on  pp.  777-780. 

Berwick  y  Alba. 

Autografos  de  Cristobal  Colon  y  Papeles  de  Amer- 
ica. Los  publica  la  Duquesa  de  Berwick,  j  de  Alba, 
Condessa  de  Siruela. — Madrid,  1892.     H. 

pp.  203.  5  facsimiles,  folio. 

This  work  contains  four  important  documents  relating  to  Ca- 
bot's La  Plata  expedition : 

Ejecutoria  de  Isabel  Mendez  v  Francisca  Vazquez  contra 
el  capitan  Sebastian  Cabotn      Madrid,  15  Setiembre  1530. 

Sentencia  dada  por  los  Senores  del  Consejo  de  las  Indias 
en  el  pleito  entre  Catalina  Vazquez  e  sus  hijas  eel  Capitan 
Sebastian  Caboto.     Avila,  4  Julio  1531. 

Sentencia  definitiva  dada  por  Ins  Seiiores  del  Consejo  de 
las  Indias  en  el  pleito  entre  Francisco  Vazquez  e  Isaliel 
Mendez  y  Sebastian  Caboto.  Medina  del  Campo,  i  Hebrero 
1532. 

Informacion  pedida  por  Francisco  Leardo  y  Francisco 
de  Santa  Cruz  contra  Sebastian  Cahoto.  Medina  del  Campo, 
5  Junio;  y  Segovia,  2S  Setiembre  1532. 

See  Harrisse's  remarks  on  this  admirable  publication,  in  Revue 
historique,]a.n.  1893,  li.  44-64,  (B.) 

S 


Beste. 

A  trve  discovrse  of  the  lute  voyages  of  discoiici  ie, 
for  the  finding  of  .1  passage  to  Cathava,  by  the  Noith- 
vveast,  vnder  the  conduct  of  Martin  Krobisher  Gen- 
erall :  Deiiided  into  three  Bookes.  In  the  first 
whereof  is  shewed,  his  first  voyage.  Wherein  also 
by  the  way  is  sette  out  a  Geographicall  description  of 
the  VVorlde.  and  what  partes  thereof  haue  bin  discou- 
ered  by  the  Nauigations  of  the  Englishmen. —  London, 
Henry  Bynnyman,   1578. 

Sll-fpp. Sa+.W-K''*^.     a  maps.     Small  4(0. 

The  "  epistle  dedicatorie  "  is  siffned  by  George  Reste. 

On  p.  16,  1508  is  iriven  as  the  year  of  Sehastirtii  Cabot's  discov. 
ery  of  Am:;rica,  the  author  "  probalily  never  havint;  heard  of  any 
previous  voyage."  Mr,  Brevoort  used  this  fact  in  arguing  for  a  pos. 
sible  voyage  in  that  year.  See  Winsor,  America,  iii.  28-29, 
(208.1. ,j);  on  p.  .^6,  Mr.  Deane  suggests  that  the  date  may  be  a  cler- 
ical or  typographical  error. 

Brewer. 

Letters  and  papers,  foreign  and  domestic,  of  the 
reign  of  Henry  VIIL,  arranged  and  catalogued  by 
J.  S.  Brewer. — ^London,  iS62(-i896.)     H. 

22  thick  folio  volumes  ot  the  Rolls  Series  ctmJain  these  docu- 
ments, dating  from  150910  1540.  Thf  editorial  work  has  lieen  con- 
tinued, since  Mr.  Brewer's  death,  by  Mr.  Tames  Gairdner  and 
Mr.  R.  H.  Brodie, 

II.  pt.  ii,  14^6,  May,  i^i^;  entry  of  "Paid  Sebastian 
Tabot  making  ot  a  carde  (or  map)  ot  Gascoine  and  Guyon, 
ao  s." 

IV.  pt.  I,  154,  no.  366,  iS  February,  1523;  payment  to  John 
Goderyk  of  Tory  for  conductyng  of  Sebastian  Cabott,  mas- 
terof  the  Pylotes  in  Spayne  to  London, 

Brown,  Rawdon. 

Ragguagli  sulla  vita  e  sulle  opere  di  Marin  Sanuto 
detlo  il  juniore  Veneto  patrizio  e  cronista  pregevolis- 
simo  de'secoli  xv  ,  xvi. — Venezia,  1837-183S.     B.  P.  L. 

3  parts,  pp.  250,  25S,  356,  Svo. 

Contains  the  letter  from  Lorenzo  Pasqualigo,  London,  23  Au- 
gust, 1497,  describing  the  return  of  Cabot  from  his  first  voyage; 
pt.  i.  99-100, 

In  the  Boston  Public  Library  copy  of  this  work,  (library  call 
no.  4196-9,  v,  i),  is  inserted  a  manuscript  note : 

"Mr,  Rawdon  Brown  will  gladly  show  Mrs.  R.  E.  Ap- 
thorp  what  he  considers  dorumentary  evidence  of  John  Ca- 
bot's Entflish  origin  ;  and,  of  his  never  having  come  to  Ven- 
ice, (where  he  married  a  Venetian  woman  who  bore  him 
Sebastian  &  his  other  sons)  until  the  year  1461.... Casa 
delta  Vida  Thursday  2  r.  M." 

The  same  copy  also  contains,  i.  100103.  a  marginal  manuscript 
note,"  I  printed  this  in  the  year  1S37;  but  in  1855-6,  it  became  man- 
ifest thro'  documents  discovered  in  the  Venice  archives. . . .  "  that 
John  Cabot  really  owed  his  birth  to  England,  etc. 

6 


Brown,  continued. 

Calendar  of  State  Papers  and  Manuscripts,  relating 
to  English  Affairs,  existing  in  the  archives  and  col- 
lections of  Venice,  and  in  other  libraries  of  Northern 
Italy.  Vol.  I.,  1202-1509,  [-1591],  edited  bvRawdon 
Brown. — London,  i864[-i894.]      H.,  B.  P.  L. 

Pp.  clvii-|-_^75.     facsimiles,     folio. 

Tnis,  the  first  volume  of  the  Rolls  series  of  Venetian  documenti, 
contains  important  papers  throwing  much  lijrht  on  John  Cabot's 
voyage  of  discovery,  which  are  referred  to  in  the  notes  under  CoN- 
TARiNi,  Navaobko,  Pasqualigo  aiid  Raimondo. 

The  series  has  been  continued  in  nine  volumes,  containing  doc- 
uments dated  to  1591. 

Cited  as  Hrown,  Calcndtir  {Venice), 

Bl'llo,  Carlo. 

La  vera  patria  di  Nicolo  de'  Conti  e  di  Giovanni 
Caboto  studj  e  documenti. — Chioggia,  1880.     H. 

Pp.  xxxiii-l-91.    5vo. 

Tne  Cabot  documents  are  on  pp.  59-70. 

"  Lettera  di  G.  Lanza  a  C.  Bullo.  sulla  vera  patria  di  Giovanni 
Caboto  "  dated,  Venezia  39  Marzo  iS^6;  70-91. 

The  footnotes  affo/d  a  useful  guide  to  the  Italian  secondary 
literature  on  the  Cabots. 

Contends  with  little  force  for  Chioggia  as  the  birthplace  of  John 
Cabot. 


call 


BURROUGH. 

The  Nauigation  and  discouerie  toward  the  riuer  of 
Ob,  made  by  Master  Steuen  Burrough,  Master  of  the 
Pinnesse  called  the  Serch  thrift. 

In  Hakluyt,   Voyages,  I.  274-283. 

Dated  27  April  i«6. 

According  to  Biddle,  Memoir,  320-321,  the  Italian  version  of 
Burrough's  Navigation,  in  Ramusio,  II.  fo.  212-219  (ed.  i6o6)'*has 
been  universally  referred  to  Sebastian  Cabot,"  following  the 
heading  given  to  the  narrative  in  Ramusio;  even  appearing  under 
his  name  in  the  Bodleian  catalogue. 

Cabot,  John. 

Petition  of  John  Cabotte,  Lewes,  Sebastian  and 
Sancto  his  sons,  delivered  to  the  Chancellor  at  West- 
minster to  be  acted  upon,  5  March  1496. 

The  original  document  is  in  the  Public   Record  Office,   London. 
(^Pr ivy  Seals,  and  Chancery  Signed  Bill.  Hen.  vii.  no.  51.) 
Reprinted  in  Desimoni,  Intorno,  p. 47. 


SEBASTIAN   CABOT. 

"  It  is  difficult  to  believe  that  admmistrdtive  incompelency  could 
have  characterized  very  greatly  a  riian  who  was  sought,  both  by 
England  and  Spain,  to  take  the  management  of  their  maritime  at- 
fairs  That  his  mind  was  fertile  in  resources,  and  that  he  exer- 
cised in  matters  ot  detail  a  superior  grasp,  seems  evident.  As  a 
student  of  phenomena,  he  was,  it  not  the  first,  a  leading  agent  to 
suspect  that  by  observing  the  variation  ot  the  needle  a  law  could 
be  adduced  for  determining  longitude;  ;ind  on  his  deathbed  he 
talked  of  it  as  a  secret  of  tlie  seaman's  art.  He  naturally  carried 
his  expectations  too  far,  since  first  glimpses  of  nature's  laws  are 
likely  to  incline  the  imaginative  mind  to  excess  of  belief;  but  the 
continued  publication  today  of  magnetic  charts,  and  the  occasional 
use  of  them  in  iiiivigation,  shows  that  Cabot's  insigiitwas  clear." 
— Winsor,  Controversies,  \\. 

[Letter  to  Juan  de  Sattiano,  dated  Seville,  24  June 
1533- 

The  original,  which  is  perhaps  the  only  specinien  of  Sebastian 
Cabot's  handwriting  in  existence,  is  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies 
at  Seville  {Est.  /^j,  Caj.  3,  Leg,  2.)  A  copy  is  among  the  Muiioz 
Transcripts  at  Madrid. (doZ.  Ixxix,  fo.  2S7.) 

A  facsimile  of  fjiis  letter,  accompanied  by  a  transcript  with  the 
abbreviations  expanded,  is  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  429-430,  Also 
printed  in  Tarducci,  Caboio,  404-405. 

See  the  reference  to  it  in  Relaciones  geograficas  de  Indias,  Ma- 
drid 1885,  1^'  P-  ''"• 

Mappe-monde —  1 544-1549. 

Sebastian  Caboto,  capitan  y  piloto  mayor  de  la 
S.  c.  c.  m.  del  Imperador  don  Carlos  quinto  deste 
nombre,  y  Rey  nuestro  sennor  hizo  esta  figura  extensa 
en  piano,  anno  del  nascimo  de  nro  saluador  Jesu 
Christo  de  M  D  X  L  I  I  I  I.  annos,  tirada  por  grados 
de  latitud  y  longitud  con  sus  uientos,  como  carta  de 
inarear,  imitando  en  parte  al  Ptolotneo,  yen  parte  alos 
modernos  descobridores,  asi  Espannoles  cotno  Portu- 
gueses, y  parte  por  su  padre,  y  por  el  descubierto,  por 
donde  podras  nauegar  como  por  carta  de  marear, 
teniendo  respecto  a  la  uaria^ion  que  haze  el  aguia. 

In  English  this  is: 

"  Sebastian  Cabot,  captain  a><d  pilot-major  of  his  sacted 
imperial  majesty  tlie  Emperor  Charles,  the  fifth  of  this  name,  and 
our  lord  the  king,  made  this  figure  projected  on  a  plane  in 
the  year  of  the  birth  of  our  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  1544,  having 
drawn  it  by  degrees  of  latitude  and  longitude,  with  thewinds,  as  a 
sailing  chart,  following  partly  Ptolemy  and  partly  the  modern  dis- 
coverers,  Spanish  and  Portuguese,  and  partly  the  discovery  made 
by  his  father  and  himself;  by  it  you  may  sail  as  by  a  sea-chart, 
having  regard  to  the  variation  of'^the  needle.     .     .     ," 

From  the  seventeenth  legend  on  a  map,  which  is  described  as  a 
copper  plate  engraving,  composed  01  four  separately  printed 
parts,  measuring  each  So  x  62  centimetres,  and  pasted  togetlieV  on 
card  board. 

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Cabot,  continued. 

The  four  corners  of  the  plate  exhibit  each  a  large  enp  ed  head 
of  Eolus,  colored  by  hand,  like  the  coast,  figures  of  iiit  ,  animals 
and  things  within  the  map.  On  the  upper  part,  to  the  lelt  of  the 
reader,  there  is  an  engraving  of  the  Annunciation,  with  a  Latin  in- 
vocation of  five  lines.  To  the  i'iglit,  arc  the  e:.graved  arms  of  the 
Empire,  surmounting  an  absolutely  unintelligible  Spanish  inscrip- 
lion.  In  the  lower  part  there  is,  on  each  side,  a  cosmographical 
table, both  within  a  frame. 

As  regards  the  mappamundi  proper,  it  is  elliptical,  with  the  or- 
thographic projection  devised  bv  Apianus  in  1524.  It  contains  in. 
dications  of  magnetic  lines  wi'/.i  no  variation,  which  Cabut  erron. 
eously  transforms  into  meridians,  and  starling  points,  calculated, 
as  he  imagined,  to  enable  mariners  to  find  the  longitude  at  sea. 
— adapted  frotn  Harrisse,  Cabot,  4,^7-38. 

An  earlier  description,  by  M.  d'AvtzAC,  is  in  the  Bulletin  de  la 
Sociitide  Geographie,  (1857)  4  ser.  xiv,  26S-270. 

Mr.  llarrisse's  examination  of  all  the  contemporary  references 
to  a  Cabot  map,  in  his  Cabot,  pp.  43i-44S,  i-t  one  of  the  very  best 
examples  of  his  marvellous  command  of  the  sources  upon  which 
the  ear'v  history  of  America  is  based,  and  of  his  masterlv  power 
of  insight  into  and  grasp  of  the  ultimate  significance  of  the  state- 
ments of  chroniclers,  disputants  and  mere  cha\v.e  scribes. 

Mr.  Harrisse  concludes  that  the  original  map  drawn  by  Sebas- 
tian Cabot  at  Seville,  in  1544,  was  sent  to  the  Low  Countries,  accom- 
panied by  the  legends  written  in  Spanish  by  Dr.  Graiales  at 
Puerto  de  Santa  Maria,  in  Spain.  This  map  was  engraved,  proba- 
bly at  Antwerp,  and  iHe  legends  were  printed,  at  the  same  place, 
in  two  forms  :  in  two  longitudinal  tables  which  were  pasted  on 
each  side  ot  the  printed  plate;  and  in  pamphlet  form,  presumably 
to  accompany  the  map  when  sold  without  the  legends  pasted 
thereon.     (See  note  to  next  title  below.) 

One  copy  is  known  of  the  first  issue  of  this  map.  It  is  on  exhi- 
bition in  the  Geographical  Department  of  the  Bibliotheque  Na- 
tionale  at  Paris.  This  C"py  was  discovered  by  von  Martins  in 
the  house  of  a  curate  in  Bavaria,  in  1S43,  and  was  purchased  by 
the  French  government  during  the  following  year. 

In  1549  a  new  issue  ot  tiie  map  was  made,  probably  from  the 
original  plate,  which  may  have  been  sent  from  Belgium  to  Lon- 
don,  where  this  issue  seems  to  have  been  published.  It  was  ac- 
companied by  two  t'lbles  of  Latin  legends  only,  copied  from  the 
Latin  text  of  the  earlier  edition,  but  divided  into  chapters,  each 
with  a  heading.  These  were  printed  in  England,  and  appear  to 
have  been  edited  by  Clement  Adams  'I'hese  legends  were  copied 
by  CnYTR.«;us  at  Oxford  in  1565.  Ilakluyt  speaks  ot  ha"ing  ex- 
amined them  in  London,  in  15S4  and  15S9,  at  •'  hrr  maiesties  privie 
ifallerie  at  Westminster,  and  in  many  other  ancient  merchants' 
houses." 

In  the  first  issue,  the  date  of  the  discoveir  of  America  by  Cabot 
is  given  as  1494.  Sebastian  Cabot  was  in  England  in  1549,  and  it 
mav  have  been  throutjh  his  influence  that  the  date  was  changed, 
while  the  edition  of  that  year  was  being  printed,  to  read,  correctly, 
1497.  Hakluyt  mentions  a  copy  of  this  correctlv  dated  issue,  in 
IS99,  and  Purchas  refers  to  it  in  16^5.  No  copy  of  either  form  of 
this  London,   1549,  edition  is  now  known  to  exist. 

Harrisse's  argument  should  be  compared  with  what  Mr.  Deane 
savs,  in  V\"insor,  America  iii.  3i-.^6,  ot  the  eflbrls  to  reconstruct  a 
map  showing  a  northwest  .  issage,  from  the  various  references  to 
the  1549  English  Cabot  map 


i    I 


Cabot,  continued. 

Comparison  might  also  be  made  with  Dawson,  Voyag^es,  ic6- 
107,  where  the  various  texts  of  legend  S  (see  below),  are  held  to 
show  that  "  tlie  Paris  map  of  1544  is  not  Cal'Oi't;  in  any  sense 
which  would  make  him  responsible  for  its  accuracy;"  that  the 
Clement  Adams  map  "was  essentially  different  in  Us  American 
geography  from  that  of  1544;  "  and  that  "  I.ok's  map,  taken  with 
GiLBE-^T  s  and  VVtllhs's  statements,  affords  a  useful  indication" 
as  to  what  Sebastian  Cabot's  charts  contained, 

"  If  this  map,  with  the  date  of  its  composition,  is  authentic,  it  is 
the  first  time  the  name  of  John  Cabot  has  be  ;n  introduced  to  our 
notice  in  any  printed  document,  in  connection  with  the  discovery 
of  North  America  .  .  .  on  the  authority,  app.irently,  of  Sebastian 
Cabot  himself." — Deane  in  Winsor,  America,  lii.  23. 

See  Am,  Anti'q.  Socy.  Proc.  (20  October,  iS^),  12-14,  f<"'  ^^'■' 
Deane's  suggestions  as  to  questions  raised  by  ihe  Cabot  map, 
when  it  was  first  seriously  discussed  by  American  students. 

The  Cabot  map  has  been  reproduced  in  : 

Jomard:  Monuments^  plate  xx,  in  actual  size  facsim- 
ile by  E.  Rembielinski,  an  able  Polish  artiht;  lackmg  two 
principal  ornaments  and  the  tabular  legends. 

Thirteen  full  size  photographic  facsimiles  were  made  in 
18S2,  through  the  efforts  of  several  New  England  students. 
Of  these,  two  were  retained  by  the  Biblioth^que  Nationale, 
and  the  others  were  disposed  of  to  the  Massachusetts  His- 
torical Society,  American  Antiquarian  Society,  Boston 
Athenaeum,  Bost<m  Public  Lilirary,  Harvard  University  l.i- 
brary,  New  York  Historical  Society,  Virginia  Historical 
Society,  Library  Company  of  Philadelphia,  Long  Island 
Historical  Society,  .\merican  Geographical  Society  (Judge 
C  P.  Daly),  and  Gen.  John  Marshall  Brown  of  Portland, 
Maine. 

Careful  facsimiles  of  the  map  were  made  for  Harrisse,  yean  et 
Sebastien  Cabot,  and  these  were  litilizcd  in  his  Cabot,  94,  262,  2S6. 
Other  copies  of  the  significant  portions  of  this  map  are  given 
in  Stevens,///'*/.  Geog.  Notes,\)\.  a,;  Kohl,  Discovery  oJ  Maine, 
358,  (24S-77) ;  La  Giavi^re,  Mar  ins,  with  an  essay  on  the  map; 
Nicholls,  Cabot,  (see  Stevens'  comment,  in  note  under  Nicholls)  ; 
Brevoort,  in  Histor,  Ma^.,  March,  1S6S,  xiii.  129,  (350.1.13); 
Kiilder,  Discovery,  and  New  England  Historic  Genealogical 
Register,  xxxii.  3S1,  (a  rough  sketch),  (350,1.32);  Bryant  and 
Gay,  United  States,  \.  193,  (2085  iS.i);  Zeri,  Caboto;  Daly,  Car. 
tography,  (the  whole  map,  much  reduced);  Winsor,  America, 
iii.  22,  and  Columbus,  626,  (3064.29);  Y\o\\rinni,  Cape  Breton,  177; 
Dawson,  Voyages,^;  Kretschmer.  Enldcckung  Amerikas;  Win- 
ship,  Coronado,  352;  Markham,  ./onrnals,  p.  xxxii. 


iifivi-  I  gatorite  doniini  | 


Declaratio  |  chartee   novet 
aliniiantis. 

A  small  quarto  pamphlet  of  24  leaves,  signatures  A-F,  4  leaves 
each,  having  27  lines  on  each  full  page.  Printed  in  Roman  letters. 
No  place,  name  of  printer  or  year,  but  perhaps  printed  at  Antwerp 
in  1544. 

This  pamphlet  was  not  known  to  modern  students  of  American 
bibliography  prior  to  its  appearance  as  no.  99  in  the  ''Catalogue 
of  the  rich  library  of  the  Chateau  de  Lobris  in  Silesia,  and  ot 
other  collections,  which  will  be  sold  at  Munich,  22  April,  (1S95), 

10 


i  1 


Cabot,  continued. 

and  following  days,  under  the  direction  of  Ludwi^  Rosenthal's 
Antiquariat."  This  copj',  the  only  one  now  known  to  eyist,  is 
repi^rted  to  have  been  purchased  for  a  New  York  firm  dealing  in 
Americana. 

The  text  ol  this  pamphlet  is  the  same  as  that  of  the  Spanish  and 
Latin  legends  which  are  mentioned  above  as  pasted  on  the  sides  ol 
the  Cabot  rnap.  They  appear  to  have  been  printed  with  the  same 
type,  but  the  complete  failure  of  the  printer  to  give  the  slightest 
clue  to  his  name  or  place  of  occupation,  has  as  yet  baffled  every 
effort  to  establish  definitely  the  locality  of  their  origin  in  printed 
form. 

The  title  to  the  pamphlet  given  iibove,  "  Explanation  of  the  new 
sailing  chart  of  his  Lordship  the  Admiral,"  is  the  same  as  that  at 
the  beginning  of  a  copy  of  the  Spanish  text  of  these  same  legends, 
which  is  preserved  in  the  Kind's  Library  at  Madrid.  This  copy 
is  in  the  handwriting  of  Dr.  Gr^ijales  of  Puerto  de  Santa 
Maria,  in  Andaliicia,  and  llarris'^e  is  strongly  of  the  opinion  that 
this  copy  is  a  first  draft,  in  the  handwriting  of  their  author,  who 
derived,  doubtless,  the  necessary  information  directly  from  Sebas- 
tian Cabot  in  person. 

'•  The  manuscript  of  these  legends  must  have  been  sent,  together 
with  the  manuscript  of  the  map,  to  the  place  where  the  latttr  was 
engraved,  then  printed  there  after  having  been  trnnslated  into 
Latin  by  some  savant  of  tlie  locality...  The  ty|>ographical  appear- 
ance of  the  legends,  and  the  eniiravinir  of  the  Imperial  Arms,  seem 
to  betray  a  Low  Countries  printing  office;  although,  thus  far.  we 
have  been  unable  to  ferret  it  out.  In  our  opinion,  however,  Bel- 
gium is  the  country  where  the  engraving  and  printing  were  exe- 
cuted, probably  at  Antwerp." — llarrisse,  Cabot,  436-7. 

See  note  under  Chryt^eus,  for  an  account  of  his  transcript  of 
the  legends. 

M.JOMAKD,  when  he  i«sued  his  facsimile  of  the  Cabot  map, 
promised  to  publish  the  text  of  the  accompanying  legends.  His 
death  prevented  the  accomplishment  of  this  purpose,  but  the  de- 
sign was  in  part  carried  out  by  M.  Boselli,  who  had  them  repro- 
duced in  lithographic  facsimile  for  private  distribution. 

The  most  convenient  form  in  which  to  consult  the  legends  as  a 
whole  is  in  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society  Proceedings, 
12  February  1891,  or  t^ew  Series  vi.  305-330.  Twenty  copies  of  this 
text  were  reprinted  for  private  distribution,  with  the  title  : 

Cabot's  Mappe-Monde.  Remarks  [in  communicating] 
from  the  papers  of  the  late  Charles  Deane,  copies  of  the 
Spanish  and  Latin  Inscriptions  on  Cabot's  M;ippe-Monde, 
now  in  the  National  Library  at  Paris,  with  a  translation 
of  them  into  English.  By  Charles  C.  Smith,  [Boston, 
1S91.] 

PP-(3S).Svo. 

The  most  important  of  these  legends  are  numbers  S  and  17.  The 
latter  gives  the  title  to  the  map,  which  is  quoted  above.  'I  his  is 
reprinted  in  Bkrtius,  7flft«/<7;-«wi  Geog.  ContractarHtn,  62";  in  160^^ 
edition,  777  in  1617  ed.,  from  Chytrx'us,  Variorum,  791-794,  in  a 
Latin  text;  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  435-436,  Sjianish  text;  and  309-311, 
English  text.  Another  English  version  is  in  Archaologia,  1S70, 
xliii.  18-19;  see  -Majok. 

Much  more  important  is  Legend  S,  of  which  Deane,  in  Winsor, 
America,  III.  23,  says  :      "  Who  but  Sebastian  Cabot  would  know 

II 


■■\.. 


^1 1 


n 


Cabot,  continued. 

the  facts  embodied  in  it, — nainelv,  that  the  discovery  w.is  made  by 
both  the  father  and  the  son,  on  the  2aX\\  of  June,  about  five  o'clock 
in  the  morning;  that  the  land  was  called  prima  vista,  or  its  equiva- 
lent and  that  the  island  near  by  was  called  St.  John,  as  the  dis- 
covery was  made  on  St.  loiin's  Day?" 

Tills  legend  was  reprmted  In  Harrisse,  Cabot,  432-43.^,  with  an 
English  version,  443-444,  from  the  Latin  version  of  Hakluyt,  Hrin. 
cipall  Navigations,  511,  which  shows  changes  which  "simply 
indicate  a  gratuitous  miinipulation  liv  Hakluyt  of  Adams'  text." 

Other  English  versions  ot  Legend  8  are  in  Markham,  Journals, 
200-201;  Major,  True  Date,  ArchcBologia,  1S70,  xliii.  iS;  Daw- 
son, Vuyages,  106107;  Bourinot,  Cape  Breton,  17S  and  295;  Bre- 
voort,  in  Historical  Mag.  xiii.  133;  American  Hist. Leaflet,  ix.9-10; 
Winsor,  America,  iii.  21. 

Legend  7  mav  be  tound,  in  English,  in  Eden,  Decades,  fo.  317, 
or  pp.  343.344  of  Arber,  First  Three  Englisii  Books.  The  Spanish 
is  in  Harrisie    Cabot,  433-434. 

[Letter  to  Charles  v.,  dated  21  April   1550. 

The  original  manuscript  copy  is  in  the  British  Museum,  {Har- 
leyan  Mss.  52j,fo.  q.) 

An  abstract  is  in  J.  G.  Nichols,  Literary  Remains,  Edward  vi. 
(London,  1857,  4^"-)  '•  'S9. 

Hehkeha,  Historia general,  {Dec.  iv.  lib.  viii.  cap.  xi;  p.  168  of 
1730  edition)  gives  an  extract  from  a  memoir  addressed  to  Charles 
V.  by  Cabot,  giving  an  account  of  the  natives  of  the  La  Plata  coun- 
try, and  of  the  natural  resources  of  those  regions.  It  is  presum- 
ablv  a  direct  quotation,  in  the  words  of  Cabot,  from  a  document 
which  is  not  now  known  to  exist. 

Ordinances,  instructions,  and  aduertisements  of 
and  for  the  direction  of  the  intended  voyage  for 
Cathay,  compiled,  made,  and  deliuered  by  the  right 
worshipfuU  M.  Sebastian  Cabota  Esquier,  gouernour 
of  the  mysterie  and  companie  of  the  Marchants  ad- 
ueiiturers. 

Printed  in  Hakluyt,   Voyagi's,  \,  226-230. 

Vcit  reference  to  an  original  text,  see  Sainsbury,  Calendar,  Co- 
lonial, L3. 

Tliese  instructions,  dated  9  May  1553,  were  drawn  up  for  the  voy- 
age undertaken  by  Willougnby  and  Chancelor. 

>everiil  of  the  more  interesting  paragraphs  are  reprinted  in 
NlCHOLLS,  Cabot,  157-162. 

"  The  conduct  of  the  operations  of  the  Company  of  Merchants 
Adventurers  by  Sebastian  Cabot  in  his  old  age  was  of  essential 
service  in  advancing  and  opening  anew  route  for  English  com- 
merce."   Sir  Clements  Markham. 

[Letter  to  Charles  V.,  dated  London,  15  November 

The  original  copy  is  at  Simancas,  {Estado  Corresp.  de  Ingla. 
terra.  Leg,  SoS  ) 

Printed  in  Coleccion  doc.  ini'J.  Espoiia  (Madrid,  184V)  iii.  Si2-Si4« 
(with  date  misprinted  1554) ;  and  in  Bulletin  Giog.  historique  et 
descrip.  (Paris,  1S90J  no.  i.  25-27. 

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or  Its  equiva- 
as  the  dis- 

433.  with  an 
kluyt,  Hrin. 
ch  "simply 
ims'  text." 
11,  Journals, 
i.  iS;  Daw. 
nd  295;  Bre- 
/f/,  ix.9.10; 

</«,    fo.  317, 
The  Spanish 


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Edward  \'\, 

Ki;  p.  i6Sof 
i  to  Charles 
Plata  coun- 
t  is  presum- 
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Hants  ad- 

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for  the  voy. 

eprinted  in 

Merchants 
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glish  com- 

ovember 

de  Inffla. 

iii.  5'2-Si4. 
fiorigue  et 


Cabot,  contitmcd. 

A  copy  of  this  letter  wiis  enclosed  in  one  from  tlie  Emperor  to 
his  son  (Philip  11),  dated  16  t'ebruary  1554,  which  is  printed 
with  it. 

The  important  portion  of  this  letter  is  translated  in  Winsor, 
America,  iii.  23-^, 

Cabot's  "  alleged  method  for  taking  the  longitude  at  sea  by 
means  of  the  declination  ot  the  sun,"  written  before  1556  is  printed 
by  Han  isse.C'M^o/,  454-456,  with  English  transhition,  302-306.  from 
the  original  Spanish  manuscript  at  Madrid,  in  the  Biblioteca  Na- 
cional;  Santa  Cruz,  Libra  de  Longitudes  (A  a,  97). 

FoK  references  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  career  in  Spain,  see 

MuNOZ  Tkanscripis,  at  Madrid;  vols.  Ixxv.  fos.  49.  319, 
331,343,519,  printed  in  Ilarrisse,  Jean  et  Sebastifn  Cabot, 
333-334;  Ixxv.  213;  Ixxvi.  28,  printed  .n  Navarrete,  J5;'ft//«>/^cfl, 
11.  698,  and  Harrisse,  Discovery,  707;  Ixxvii.  fo.  165, 
printed  in  Harrisse,  Jean  et  Sibaitten  Cabot,  355.  Libro 
de  cofiias  de  cedulas  {dtc)  de  la  Cotitratacion,  ii,i5-i-iig, 
printed  in  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  iii.  319,  and  Opiiaculos, 
1.66. 

Simancas  manuscripts,  Libro  de  la  Camera,  1513-1516, 
fo.  63,  printed  in  V\Arr\s&e,  Discovery,  706.  and  Cahol,  ^01. 
Archives  of  the  Indies,  Seville;  Est.  14S,  Caj.  2,  Leg.  1, 
and  Caj.  3,  Lig.  \,  printed  in  Coleccion  de  Do  umentos 
in^ditos  de  y«rt/V/5,  xxxii.  449-451,  455-461,479,  and  481-482. 
Lig.  /,  lib.  I,  Toma  de  liazon  de  Ti/itlos,  1503-1615,  fo.42, 
printed  in  Navarrete,  Coleccion,  iii.  308-309. 

See  notes  under  PIerreka  and  Navarrete  below. 

For  references  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  second  sojourn  in  Eng- 
land, see 

Dasent,  Acts  of  Privy  Council,  (London.  1S90)  9  October 
'547.  (II-  137);  2  September  1549,  (II.  320.  374);  26 June,  1550, 
(HI.  55)  reprinted  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  44S-450. 

Woi^^&r  \n  Notes  and  Queries,  (1S62)  3d  Ser.  1.  125.  This 
dispatch,  dated  25  November,  1C49.  from  the  English  Ambas- 
sadors at  Brussels,  is  in  the  British  Museum  {Mss.  Colt, 
Gabba  B.  xii,  fo.  124.)  It  is  referred  to  by  Strype,  Memorials, 
II.  190.     See  entry  under  Charles  v. 

Harrisse,  y(?rt«  et  Sibastien  Cabot,  360,  reprinted  in  his 
Cabot,  450. 

Harrisse,  Cabot,  449-450.  Text  of  reissue  of  the  Letters 
Patent  of  1456  to  Sebastian  Cabot,  4  Jrne,  1550,  from  the 
original  entry  in  the  Public  Record  Office  (Patent  Roll, 
£dw.  vi.  Pt.  vi,  m.  lo.) 


Strype,  Memorials,  ii,  pt.  ii.  76.  The  accuracy  of  this  entry 
is  doubted  by  Harrisse,  Cabot,  4^1. 

Lemon,  Calendar,  Domestic,  1547-S0,  I.  65.  This  docu- 
ment, Cabot's  appointment  as  governor  of  the  Alercliants  Ad- 
venturers for  life,  6  February  1555,  is  also  in  Hakluyt,  Voy- 
ages, iii.  10. 

The  Pension  of  ;^  166.  13s.  4d.,  granted  by  Edward  vi.  to  Sebas- 
tian Cabot  during  his  life,  on  6  January  1549-50,  is  in  Hakluyt, 
I'oyages,  iii.  10,  in  Latin  and  English.  'I'he  Latin  text  is  in  Rymer, 
Foedera,  iv.  pt,  iii.  170;  (see  also  iv.  pt.  iv.  40  and  55.  The  hitter  is 
translated  by  Harrisse,  CV//>«/,  459-460  )  Entries  of  payments  made 
to  Cabot  on  account  of  this  grant  are  in  Harri-se,  Caoot,  451,  454, 
456-460.  ^ 

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Cabot,  continued. 

On  25  December,  1557  William  VVorthington  alor.e  drew  tlie 
pension  wliich  had  been  granted  to  him  and  to  Sebastian  Cabot 
jointly,  on  the  preceding  29  May.  As  Cabot  had  drawn  his  share 
of  the  payment  on  29  September,  the  inference  is  that  he  either  re- 
linquished this  pension,  or  that  he  had  died  in  the  interval.  Tins 
is  the  last  recorded  encry  of  his  name,  during  his  lifetime.  Printed 
in  Harrissc,  Cabot,  466. 

See  note  to  Bokrouuh. 
Portrait. 

Effigies  .  Seba&tiani  Caboti  Anglt  .  Filii  .  Johanis 
Caboti  .  Vene  ti  .  Militis  Avrati  .  Primi  .  invet  oris. 
Terra;  nova  sub  Herico  vii  .  Angl  la;  Rege. 

This  legend  was  on  a  portrait,  which  was  doubtless  the  same 
painting  as  the  one  that  Purclias,  Pilgrimes,  iv.  iSia,  reported 
havinn  seen  in  •'  the  privie  gallerie  at  VVIiite  Hall."  The  picture 
passed  into  private  hands,  pr)ssibly  during  the  early  common- 
wealth period,  and  was  found  in  a  Scottish  gentleman's  hou>e 
early  in  the  nresent  century,  by  Mr.  Charles  Joseph  Halford  ot 
Bristol,  England. 

See  Mr.  Biddle's  account  of  the  earlier  history  of  the  painting, 
written  before  he  secured  it,  in  his  Memoir,  317-319.  See  also  a 
note  in  the  Historical  Magazine,  November,  1869,  2  Ser.  vi.  306- 
307,  copied  from  the  Bristol,  England,  Daily  Times. 

-Vlr.  iialford  eventually  sold  it  to  Mr.  Biddlc,  who  hung  't  in  his 
house  at  Pittsburg,  Pennsylvania,  where  it  was  destroycct  'iy  fire 
in  1845. 

Fortunately,  two  careful  copies  of  Ihe  portrait  had  previously 
been  made,  for  the  New  York  Historical  Society,  and  by  John  G. 
Chapman  for  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  See  the  Pro- 
ceedings of  the  latter  society,  for  March  and  June,  1S38,  ii.  loi  and 
III. 

This  portrait  was  for  some  time  teputed  to  be  by  Holbein,  but 
modern  discoveries  in  regard  to  that  painter's  career  show  that 
this  is  hardly  possible,  riie  portrait  is  evidently  English,  and 
must  therefore  have  been  made  after  Cabot's  return  to  London  in 
154S,  when  Holbein  appears  tr  have  been  dead  for  several  years. 
See  under  Appleton,  below,  for  the  report  on  the  Massachusetts 
copy  of  the  portrait,  in  Mass.  Histor.  Socy.  Proceedings,  yAtmnry , 
1S65.  viii.  91-96. 

With  the  exception  of  the  legend  no.  8  on  the  Cabot  map,  this  is 
the  only  direct  testimony,  presumably  from  Sebastian  himself,  as 
to  the  principal  fact  involved.  But  being  clumsily  expressed,  it  is 
uncertain  whether  the  son  or  the  father  was  intended  to  be  repre- 
sented as  the  knight  and  discoverer.  The  honor  is  given  to  but 
one  of  them,  but  unhappily  the  only  statement  clearly  expressed  is 
that  Sebastian  Cabot  is  an  Englishman  and  the  son  of  John  Cabot 
a  Venetian. — Deaue  in  Winsor,  America,  iii.31. 

There  is  no  other  evidence  that  either  father  or  son  was  ever 
knighted,  although  Purchas,  Pi/grimes,  iv.  1177,  gives  the  title  ot 
Sir  to  Sebastian.  In  the  entries  referring  to  nis  pension,  he  is 
styled  "  armiger  "  or  esquire. 

A  copy  of^this  picture,  i)rinted  in  the  year  1763,  hangs  in  the 
Sala  della  Scudo,  in  the  ducal  palace  in  Venice,  with  a  Ion  ■  Latin 
inscription  composed  probably  at  the  time  the  copy  was  made.  See 
Notes  qnd  Queries,  (1858),  2  Ser.  v.  2. 


ti  ;■ 
1' 

1 

1 

1 

invet  oris. 


Caijot,  continued. 

One  of  tlie  best  reproductions  from  this  portrait  is  in  Seyek, 
Bristol,  ii.  2c8  Other  smaller  copies  are  in  Nicholls'  and  IIay- 
wakd's  biographies,  and  in  WtNsoK,  America,  iii.  5. 

See  under  d'Avezac,  for  a  note  on  a  Ven-tian  portrait  of  John 
and  Sebastian  Cabot,  referred  to  in  the  Bulletin  di  la  Society  de 
Geogrcphie,  Pii'-is,  May,  1S69,  xvii.  406-7. 

Cespedes. 

Regimiento  de  navegacion  mando  hazer  el  rei  nves 
tro  seflor  por  orden  de  sv  conseio  real  de  las  Indias  a 
Andres  Garcia  de  Ces  pedes  sv  costnografo  tnaior. — 
(Colophon ;  Madrid,  1606.) 

11.  1S4,  folio. 

Near  tlie  top  of  fol.  1,^7  there  is  an  important  reference  to  a  map 
drawn  by  Cabot  for  the  King  of  Castille. 

CilARLES  V. 

[Letter  from  the  Emperor  to  Mary  Tudor,  Qj^ieen  of 
England,  dated  Haynnau,  9  September,  1553. 

The  French  text  is  printed  by  CI.  Hopper  in  Notes  and  Queries, 
(1S62),  3ser.  I.  125. 

An  extract  is  translated  into  English  by  W.  B.TurnbuIl,  Cal- 
endars, {Foreign),  issi-^Si^,  !•  no-  3o.  P*  'o- 

Relates  to  Cabot's  proposed  return  to  the  Spanish  service. 

Chauveton. 

Histoire  novvelle  dv  novveav  monde,  extraite  de 
r  Italien  de  M.  Hierosme  Benzoni  Milanois,  &  en- 
richie  de  plusteurs  Discours  et  choses  dignes  de  me- 
moire.  Par  M.  Vrbain  Chavveton. — (Geneva.)  Evs- 
tace  Vignon,  1579. 

20ll.+pp.  726.     Small  Svo. 

The  summary  of  Cabot's  voyage,  on  p.  141,  is  credited  to  Peter 
Martyr. 

Chytr^us. 

Variorvm  in  Evropa  itinervm  delici;v  ;  sev,  ex  variis 
ma-nv-scriptis  selectio-ra  tantvm  inscri-ptionvm  max- 
ime  recentium  monvmenta.  Quibiis  passim  in  Italia 
et  Germania,  Helvetia  et  Bohemia,  Dania  et  Cimbria, 
Belgio  et  Gallio,  Anglia  et  Polonia,  &c.  Templa, 
arae,  scholae,  bibliothecae,  musera.. .  .conspicua  sunt 
....Omnia  nuper  collecta  &  hoc  modo  digesta  a  Na- 
thane  Chytrieo. — Herbornic  Nassouiorum.     1594. 

ioll.-|-pp.'S46,  i2mo. 

A  second  edition  was  printed  in  1599,  and  a  third  in  1616. 

See  pp.  773-79S)  (orS99-6i4  in  1606  ediiion) ;  "  Svb  tabulis  geogra- 
phicis  sequentes  inscriptiones  leguntur;  quas  non  tarn  propter 
latinitatis,  quie  non  magna  est,  elegantiam ;  quim  propter  rts  ipsas 
cognitione  non  indignas  hie  subiicere  voluimus." 

IS 


Chytr/EUS,  continued. 


1 


h 


til  !  I 


In  1565  a  young  Germarj  sav.nt,  oalled  Nathan  Kochhaff,  but 
generally  known  under  the  name  of  Chytraeus,  undertook  a  liter- 
ary tour  through  Europe.  In  the  course  of  that  extensive  peregri- 
nation, he  copied  a  great  many  inscriptions,  chiefly  from  monu- 
ments, but  he  did  not  publish  them  until  nearly  thirty  years  after 
his  return  home. 

What  struck  Chytraeus  particularly  in  Oxford,  was  a  map.... 
which  he  fails  to  describe  altogother.  His  attention  was  attracted 
exclusively  by  the  inlormation  in  the  letrends,  and  these  he  conied, 
notwithstanding  the  poor  Latin  in  which  thev  are  written. . .  .I'hese 
inscriptions  are  .  only  the  Latin  text  oUhe  tabular  legends  in  the 
Cabotian  planisphere  of  1544.... The  typographical  divi:.ion  of  the 
legends  was  different,  (from  that  of  the  Paris  copy),  out. ...these 
differences  lead  us  t<»  presume  that  the  edition  of  the  map  seen  at 
Oxford  may  not  have  been  different  in  its  cartographical  part 
from  the  one  of  1544,  but  that  the  tabular  legends  contained  no 
Spanish  texts  wliatever,  while  they  set  forth  two  more  inscriptions 
in  Latin. . . .  But  a  very  important  difference  is  in  the  date.  Where 
in  the  legend  xvii.  of  the  Pans  map  we  read  "  plana  ligura  me  de- 
lineavit,  1544."  the  Oxford  one  gives  "  plana  figura  ine  delineavit 
154Q."  "This  date,  and  the  modifications  in  the  typographical  ar- 
rangement of  the  legends,  prove,  of  course,  the  existence  of  a  sec- 
ond edition,  or  issue,  of  the  Cabotian  planisphere." — Harrisse, 
Ctibot,  438-440. 

See  notes  under  Cabot,  Mappe-monde,  above. 
CONTARINI. 

[Dispatch  ffoin  Gasparo  Contarini,  the  Venetian 
representative,  to  the  Senate  at  Venice.  Dated  Val- 
ladolid,  31  December,  1522. 

Original  in  the  Marciana  Library,  Venice,  (CV.  w/V,  Cod.  mix, 
cart.  2S1-2S3.) 

Printed  in  Bullo,  Vera  Patria,  65-6^. 

Translated  into  Entflish  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar,  (  Ven 
ice),  iii.  no.  607;  and  by  Makkham,  Journals,  219-223. 

[Dispatch  to  the  Senate  of  Venice,  dated  7  March, 
1523- 

Original  in  Marciana  Library,  (67.  vii.  Cod.  mix,  cart.  289). 
Printed  in  Bi;LLO,   Vera  Patria,  66-67. 

Translated  into  English  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar,  {Ven- 
ice), iii.  no.  632,  and  by  Makkham.  yournals,  223-3^4. 

[Report   to   the   Senate   of  Venice,   16   November, 

1525- 

Original  document  in  the  State  Archives  at  Turin,  (cod.  r,  a,  b, 
X,  i.  c.  13S). 

Printed  in  the  Raccolta  Colomhiana,  pt.  iii,  vol.  I.  no.  xxxxi, 
p.  129. 

The  important  reference  to  Cabot's  voyage  to  the  Moluccas  is 
printed  in  Hakrisse,  Cabot,  406. 


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ochhaff,  but 
look  a  liter, 
live  peregri- 
from  monu. 
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[oluccas  is 


CoNTARlNi,  continued. 

[Dispatch  to  the  Doge  of  Venice,  Andrea  Gritti, 
dated  Va'.'adolid,  26  July  1523. 

Original  in  Venice,  ( Capi  del  Consiglif  de*  Died,  Ltttere 
sottoscritte  Filza  no.  6,  Carte  302,  1523) . 

Printed  in  Bullo,  Vera  Patria,  (5g. 

Translated  into  English  by  Rawdon  Br6vvn,  Calendar,  {Viti- 
I'ce),  iii.  no.  710;  and  by  Makkham,  yoiirnals,  225 -6. 

See  below,  under  Venice,  lor  the  replies  to  these  dispatches. 

Cooper,  Thomas. — See  Crowley. 

Cortes. 

[Letters  from  Hernand  Cortes  to  Sebastian  Cabot, 
and  to  the  members  of  his  expedition.     Dated  28  May 

1527-  ^ 

Original  copies  in  the  Archives  of  the  Indies,  at  Seville,  {Patro- 
nato  Real,  leg.  6). 

Printed  by  Navarrbte,  Coleccion,  v.  456-4 '7.459. 

COSA. 

Juan  de  la  cosa  la  fizo  en  el  puerto  de  Sa.  mja  en 
afSo  de.  1500. 

Or,  in  English,  "Juan  de  la  Cosa  drew  this  at  the  port  of  Santa 
Maria  in  1500." 

A  map  ot  the  world,  in  colors,  drawn  by  the  Spanish  navigator, 
Juan  de  la  Cosa,  on  an  ox-hide  measuring  five  feet  nine  inches  by 
three  feet  two  inches. 

Originally  belonging  to  the  office  of  the  Spanish  Minister  of 
Marine  at  Madrid  it  was  found  by  Baron  Walckenaer,  in  1832,  in 
a  bric-a-brac  shop  at  Paris.  At  the  sale  of  his  library  in  1S53, 
(catalogue  no.  2904),  it  was  purchased  by  the  Queen  of  Spain,  and 
is  now  in  the  Niival  Museum  at  Madrid. 

In  this  map,  the  earliest  known  on  which  the  western  discover- 
ies are  drawn,  the  northern  portion  of  the  east  coast  of  the  conti- 
nent lying  westward  from  Europe  was  do' ,ced,  undoubtedly  from 
English  sources.  A  broad  legend,  "  Mar  descubiera  por  inglese," 
runs  along  this  coast,  and  the  easternmost  cape  is  named  ''Cauo 
de  ynglaterra." 

A  photographic  facsimile,  the  size  of  the  original,  was  made  in 
1SS9,  and  in  1S92  an  excellent  facsimile,  colored  by  hand  after  the 
original,  was  issued  wiih  Antonio  Vascano's  Juan  de  la  Cosa, 
Ensayo  hiograjico,  Madrid  1892;  and  also  sold  separately.  An- 
other facsimile  in  colors  is  in  Jomard,  Monuments,  pi.  16,  in  three 
sheets. 

The  map  has  been  reproduced  in  Humboldt,  Examen,  v.,  (inac- 
curately), and  in  his  appendix  to  Ghillany's  Geschichte  des  See 
fahrers  Ritter  Martin  Behaim,  (Niirnberg,  1S53),  reissued  in  the 
Amsterdam  Seeskabinet. 

Reduced  facsimiles  are  in  Stevens,  Notes,  pi,  i ;  Dawson,  Voy- 
ages,'ju;  Leiewel,  Giog.  du  Moyen  Age,  planche  xli;  Winsor, 
America,  iii.  S,  sketched  in  his  Columbus,  3So-3bi ;  Markham,  Jour- 
nals^ XX ;  Thacher,  America,  195. 

The  best  transcript  of  the  American  names  on  the  chart  is  in 
Harrisse,  Discovery,  412-415. 


17 


1 1 


Cronicon  regum  Angliit*  et  series  m.aiorum  et  vice 
comitutn  Civitatis  London  ab  anno  primo  Henrici  ter- 
tium  ad  annum  priitium  Hen.  8. 

Manuscript  in  the  Br'  ish  Museum, (jV«5.  »  .ei/iits,  A  xi<i, 

/<>-'73)- 

It  "contains  extract!>  from  an  anonymous  chronicle  of  the  time 
Oi  H<;nry  vii,  mentioning  the  first  transatlantic  voyage  of  John  Ca- 
boi  (not  by  name,  however,)  mixed  with  details  pertaining  to  the 
second,  but  presented  as  one  expedition  only." — Harrisse,    Cabot, 

397- 

The  passaj^es  referring  to  Cabot  are  printed  by  Dr.  E.  R.  Hale, 
in  Am.  Antiquarian  Socy.  Proceedings,  31  October  1866,  p.  23. 

This  Cronicon  was  attributed  to  Robert  Fabyan  by  Stow,  who 
utilized  it,  with  some  serious  modifications,  in  his  Chronicles,  1580, 
where  the  Cabot  passages,  in  which  Stow  changed  "  a  Straunger 
venisian  "  into  "  one  Seoastian  Gabato  a  genoas  Sonne,"  occur  on 
p.  873. 

llAKLUYT  also  used  the  Cronicon  in  his  Dtvers  Voyages,  1583; 
in  the  Principall  Navigations,  1589,515;  and  Voyage's,  idfco,  iii.  9. 

Concerning  the  conflicting  statements  in  Hakluyt,  see  BiDDLS, 
Memoir,  41-45,  and  Tytlek,  Hisior.   Viezv,  431-437, 

Crowley. 

An  Epitome  of  cronicles.  Conteyninge  the  whole 
discourse  of  the  histories  as  well  of  this  realme  of 
England  as  all  other  countreys,  gathered  out  of  most 
probable  auctours.  Firste  hy  Thomas  Lanquet,  from 
the  beginning  of  the  worlde  to  the  incarnation  of 
Christe,  Secondeiy,  to  the  reigne  of  our  soueraigne 
lord  King  Edward  the  sixt  by  Thomas  Cooper,  and 
thirdly  to  the  reigne  of  our  soueraigne  Ladye  Qiiene 
Elizabeth,  by  Robert  Crowley.  Anno  I5S9»  Londini. 
In  sedibus  Thomas  Marshe. —  Imprinted  at  London  by 
William  Seres.     1559. 

See  Harrisse,  Cabot,  16-1S,  for  an  elaborate  discussion  of  the 
authorship  and  authority  of  the  phrase  •'  a  Genoways  sonne,"  ap- 
plied to  Sebastian  Cabot,  sub  anno  I552-3.  This  expression  ap- 
pears to  Harrisse  to  have  been  interpolated  by  a  London  hack- 
writer, printer,  and  preacher,  Robert  Crole  or  Crowley,  who  pre- 
pared the  1559  edition  of  Dr.  Cooper's  continuation  of  Lanquet's 
chronicle,  K»r  the  press.  Crowley  and  Cabot  were  both  living  in 
London  between  155 1  and  1554. 

Davis. 

The  worldes  hydrographical  discription.  Whereby 
appeares  that  from  England  there  is  a  short  and 
speedie  passage  into  the  South  Seas,  to  China  and 
India....  by  John  Davis. —  London,  Thomas  Dawson, 

I.S95- 

pp.  48.  small  dto. 

Reprinted  in  Hakluyt,  Voyages,  (1S12  edition) ;  and  in  the  Hak- 
luyt  Society  Davis  volume,  entered  below  under  Makkham. 

The  reference  to  Sebastian  Gabota's  unsuccessful  voyage  in 
search  of  a  northwest  passage  is  in  the  opening  paragraphs  of  the 
text. 

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Eden. 

A  treatyse  of  the  newe  India,  with  other  new  founde 
landes  and  Ilandes,  as  well  eastwarde  as  westwarde,  af- 
ter the  descripcion  of  Se-hastian  Munster  in  his  boke  of 
vni-iiersall  Cosinographie  :  Translated  out  ot  Latin 
into  Englishe.  By  Rychaide  Eden.— (Colophon  ;  Lon- 
don, Edward  Sutton,  1553O 

103  II,  small  4to.  (i^nin  size). 

Kepriiited  in  1572  and  157^. 

Also  reprinted  in  Akhkk,  First  Three  Enfflish  Books,  3-43. 

See  the  dedication  to  Norihuniberland,  (I.  siif.  aa  iiii.  or  p.  6  of 
Arber's  edition,  with  comnienton  p.  xiii),  tor  reference  to  the  ex- 
pedition •'  vnder  the  gouernaunce  of  Sebastian  Cabot  yet  living',  & 
one  syr  Thomas  IVrte,  whose  taynt  heart  was  the  cause  that  that 
viage  toke  none  effect." 

The  decades  of  the  newe  worlde  or  west  India,  Con- 
teynyng  ihe  nauigations  and  cotiquestes  of  the  Span- 
yardes,  VVrytten  in  the  Latine  tounge  by  Peter  Mar- 
tyr of  Angleria,  and  trans-lated  into  Englysshe  by 
Rycharde  Eden. — Londini.  Guilhelmi  Powell.  1555. 

II  (24;-|-36i  +  (i3).  map.  small  \\.o. 

Rf  printed  in  Akbek,  First  Three  English  Books,  43  397. 

Eden's  Decades  placed  before  the  English  reader  fur  tiie  first 
time,  the  several  notices  of  Sebastian  Cabot  by  Martyr,  Ramusio, 
Oomara,  and  Ziegler. 

See  •'  Ricliarde  Eden  to  the  reader,"  (prelim,  leaf,  sig.  c  i.)  for 
"  Sebastiane  Cabnte  touched  only  in  the  north  corner  and  most 
barbarous  parte  hereof." 

••  W'lirn  Eden  wrote,  Sebastian  Cabot,  an  old  man,  was  still 
alive  in  England,  and  the  chronicler's  views  may  be  supposed  to 
have  been  to  some  extent  influenced  by  the  aged  manner's.  These 
opinions  of  Eden  were  that  it  behooved  his  couiitrvmen,  under 
tne  warrant  of  the  Cabot  discoveries,  not  to  delay  longer  in  taking 
possession  of  the  New  World  from  Raccalaos  to  Florida." — Win- 
sor,  Controversies,  g. 

For  the  1577  edition,  see  below  under  Willes. 

A  very  necessarie  and  profitable  Booke  concer-ning 
Nauigation,  compiled  in  Latin  by  Joannes  Taisnie- 
rus,  a  publike  professor  in  Rome,  Ferrana,  Si.  other 
Uniuersities  in  Italic  of  the  Mathematicalles,  .  .  . 
Translated  into  Englishe,  by  Richarde  Eden. — Lon- 
don, Richarde  lugge.     [n.  d.,  about  1575.] 

42  II.  small  4to. 

This  translation  was  probably  not  published  earlier  'han  1574. 
Captain  Markham,  in  his  Davis's  Voyages,  356,  dr.t  ;s  it  1579, 
without  comment. 

See  the  third  page  of  the  Epistle  Dedicalorie.  "  Of  the  thyrd 
engin  .  .  .  not  certaynely  knowen,  although  Sebastian  Caboi  on 
his  death  bed  tolde  me  that  he  had  the  knowledge  thereof  bv 
diuine  reuelation." 

See  M.  d'Avezac's  criticism  on  some  of  Eden's  English  render- 
ings,  Revue  Critique,  v.  265. 

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Fabyan. 

See  Cronicon,  above. 

A  manuscript  chronicle  by  Robert  Kabyan,  nnt  now  known  to 
exist,  is  quoted  by  Stow ,  C/i roii ic/rs ff^-j^,  (with  a  misprint,  "  1468") ; 
and  by  IIai<luyt,  Df'vers   Voyatrfs,  fol.  A  3;   Voyaift!',  iii.  9. 

See  comments,  and  quotations,  in  Ilarrisse,"  ("<//"'/,  143;  Camp, 
bell,  Ailmirals,  I.  374:  Markham,  Journals,  vtc.  199-200  and  note\ 
Deane  in  VVjnsor,  America^  iii.  jS;  Dawson,  Voyagca^ffo-cri;  Hi>{. 
ginson,  Explorers,  56-58. 

See  below,  Dbxteh,  Testimony  of  Fabyan* s  Chronicle. 


Ferdinand  of  Aragon. 

[Letter  from  the  king  of  Spain  to  Lord  Willouglibj, 
dated  13  September,  15 12. 

The  original  Spanish  text  is  among  the  Mufloz  Transcripts,  at 
Madrid,  (vol.  xc,  fo.  109  verso.) 

Herrera,  Dec  I.  lib,  ix,  cap.  xiii,  (vol.  I.  254,  1730  ed.)  refers 
to  this  letter  to  "  Milort  de  Ulibi,"  and  ol  the  arrangements  which 
the  king  offered  to  attract  Cabot  to  his  service. 

[Letter  to  Sebastian    Caboto,   dated    13  September, 

1512. 

The  Spanish  text  is  in  the  Mufioz  Transcripts  at  Madrid,  (vol. 
xc,  fo.  115.) 

[Letter  to  Luis  Carro  de  Villaragut,  his  Ambassador 
in  England,  dated  20  October,  1512. 

Original  text  in  the  Mufioz  Transcripts,  (vol.  xc,  fo.  115.) 
Another  letter  by  King  Kerdinand,  "concerning   Sebastian  Ca- 
boto," written  2oOcto))er,  1512,  from  the  same  Transcripts,  is  also 
printed  by  Harrisse,  Jean  et  Sibastien  Cabot,  331-332. 


FOXE. 

North-west  fox,  or.  Fox  from  the  North-west  pas- 
sage. Beginning  with  King  Arthvr,  .  .  .  Following 
with  briefe  Abstracts  of  the  Voyages  of  Cabot,  .  .  . 
With  the  Author  his  owne  Voyage,  being  the  xvith ; 
...  By  Captaine  Lvke  Foxe  of  Kingstone  vpon 
Hull,  Capt.  and  Pylot  for  the  Voyage,  in  his  Majesties 
Pinnace  the  Charles.  Printed  by  his  Majesties  Com- 
mand.— London,  AIsop  and  Favvcet,  1635. 

Pp.  272.  globe  and  map.  small  410. 

Reprinted  by  the  Hakluyt  Society,  edited  by  Miller  Christy,  in 
1894.    (I, /-259).    Set  p.  cxxvii  for  "collation  of  the  original. 

For  the  account  ot  the  Cabot  voyages  see  13-16,  or  31-37 
(1894  ed.) 

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Galvano. 

Tratado.     Qiie  coinp6s  o  nnhre  &  no-tauel  capitao 

Antonio  Galuao,  dos  diuersos  \:  desuajrndos  caminhos, 

...  &   assi  de   todos  os  des  cobrimentos  antij^os   & 

modernos,    que    fcao    leitos  ate  a   era    de    tnil    &    qui- 

nhentos  &  cincoenta.  — (Colophon,  1563.) 

11.  (4)-|-S<).  small  4to    (liino  size.) 

Itepriiitcd   at   Lisbon,   where   the     1563    edition  was    doubtless 
printed,  in  1731. 
An  English  translation  has  the  title: 

The  discoveries  of  the  World  from  their  first  originall  \  nto 
the  yeere  of  our  I-ord  1555.  BrieHv  written  in  tlie  I'or-tugall 
tongue  by  Antonie  Galvano,  Gouernour  of  'I'ernate,  the 
chiefe  Island  of  the  Malucos.  Corrected,  quoted,  and  now 
published  in  English  by  Richard  Ilakluyt— Londini,  G. 
lishop.  1601. 
6  ll-|-pp.  97.  small  4to. 

This  version  substituted  the  name  of  John  Cabot  for  that  of 
Sebastian,  who  appear*  as  the  discoverer  m  the  t'oriuguese  text. 
The  English  also  adds  the  statement  "hut  born  in  Hristol"  to  the 
mention  ot  Sebastian  as  a  \'enetian,  in  connection  wiih  the  voyage 
to  La  Plata. 

The  Portuguese  and  English  texts  were  reprinted  by  the  Hak. 
luyt  Society,  edited  by  vice-admiral  Dethune,  London.  iS6i. 

The  English  version  was  reprinted  in  the  Oxford  Collection  of 
Voyaj^es,  II ;  and  in  J.  .S.  Clarke,  Progress  of  Maritime  Discovery 
(London,  1803)  appendix. 

For  the  passages  referrineto  Cabot,  see  fo.  25  (1563  ed.),  pp.  32-33 
(Hakluyt  1601  ed.).  S7S9  {Hakluyt  Society,  1S62  ed.) 

These  passages  are  reprinted,  iii  English, in  Markham,  Journals, 
etc.  ai6;  Dawson,   Voyaj^es,  no;  Winsor,  America,  iii,  33. 

Galvano's  statement  that  Cabot  saw  land  in  latitude  45  degrees 
north  conforms  so  closely  to  the  testimony  of  the  Cabot  map  that 
Deane  in  Winsor,  ^4;«<'/'/V(;,  iii.  33,  suspected  that  Galvano  must 
have  known  that  cartographical  record.— Winsor,  Controver- 
sies, 6. 

This  account  was  used  by  Thomas  Prince  in  his  Chronological 
History  of  Nezo  England,' Boston,  1736,  p  So;  reprinted  by  S.  G. 
Drake,'  Boston,  1S26,  and  1852,  p.  82.  (208960.36.1) 


Gilbert. 

A  discovrse  Of  a  Discouerie  for  a  new  Pas-sage  to 
Cataia.  Written  by  Sir  Hvm-frey  Gilbert,  Knight. 
— London  by  Hen-ry  Middleton  for  Richarde  Ihones. 
1576.  Aprilis.   13. 

44  11.  map.  small  4to. 

Written  at  least  as  early  as  1566. 

The  very  inaccurate  information  concerning  Cabot,  for  which 
Gilbert's  sole  authorities  are  the  Cabotian  planisphere  of  1544  or 
1549,  and  Ramusio,  to  whom  he  apparently  refers  in  the  marginal 
note,  "  Writen  in  the  discourses  of  Nauigation,"  are  on  the  leat 
signature  D  iij. 


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GOMARA,  FrANCI'jCO    LoPEZ    DE. 

Primeia y  segnnda  parte  de  la  his-toria  general  de  las 
Indias  con  todo  el  descubrimiento  y  cosas  nota  bles 
que  han  acaecido  dende  que  se  ganaron  ala  el  afto  de 
1551.  Con  la  coquista  de  Mexico  y  de  la  nueiia  Es- 
pafia.     En  Carago^a,  1553  (1552). 

II.  cxxil+cxl.  map.  folio. 

Fifteen  editions,  at  least,  of  Gomara's  three  works,  were  printed 
durinjjf  the  years  1552  to  15^5.  Relerence  is  usually  made,  by 
preference,  to  the  i2mo  edition  printed  at  Antwerp  in  1554  lor 
Juan  Steelsio  and  Juan  Bellero,  as  this  is  the  earliest  edition 
having'  the  chapters"  numbered. 

Before  the  end  of  the  century,  translations  into  Italian  and 
French  had  been  reprinted  a  score  of  times.  Enuflish  translations 
of  tlie  Conquest  of  the  Indies  were  printed  in  157S  and  1596. 

See  the  account  of  these  various  editions  in  Sabin,  Dictionary  of 
^WK-r/Vaw  ^(?o>t5,  New  York,  1875,  vii.  305-312,  which  is  "said  to 
have  been  drawn  up  by  Mr.  Brevoort." 

Gomara,  who  frequented  the  Spanish  court  in  his  capacity  of 
secretary  to  Fernando  Cortes  between  1540  and  1J46,  had  abundant 
opportunities  for  meeting  Cabot  personally,  and  '•  iniuht  have  in- 
formed himself  as  to  his  early  maritime  enterprises,  but  he  seems 
to  have  neglected  his  opportunity...  .His  statement  <ontains  little 
new,  and  is  principally  .a  repetition  of  Peter  Martyr." — Deane  in 
Winsor,  America,  iii.  27. 

For  ••  Sebastian  Gaboto  y  su  nauegacion,"  see  cap.  xxxix,  '•  Los 
bacallaos."  See  index  to  other  editions  under  inbastian,  in  ac- 
cordance with  old  Spanish  custom. 

Eden  gives  an  English  version  of  this  chapter  in  his  Decades, 
317;  or  Arber's  edition,  343. 

Reprinted  in  Amer.  Hist.  Leaflet,  ix,  p.  14;  in  NichoIIs.  Bristol, 
iii.  2p6;  and  in  Winsor,  America,  iii.  26-27,  ('"  corrected  by  the 
original").  There  is  another  English  version  of  the  account  of 
Sebastian  Caboto  in  Makkham,  Journals,  215. 


Gonzales  de  Puebla. 

[Dispatch  from  Ruy  Gonzales  de  Puebla.  the  senior 
Spanish  Ambassador  in  England,  to  Ferdinand  and 
Isabella,  dated  28  March,  1.^96. 

The  original  documinl  is  in  the  Archives  at  Simancas, 
{Capitulaciones  con  Ingluterra,  Leg.  3.  fo.  16). 

An  English  translation  by  Behgenkoth,  in  Calendar,  (Spain), 
I.  no.  12S,  pp.  88.89. 

[Dispatch  to  Ferdinand  and  Isabella,  written  about 
25  July,  1498. 

Original  document  at  Simancas,  {Palronalo  Real.  Capiinla' 
clones  con  Inglaterra,  Leg.  2,  fo.  19S). 

Printed  by  Harrisse,  Jean  el  Sibastien  Cabot,  t^2S,  with  mis- 
takes corrected  in  his    Cabot,  395  6. 

The  reference  to  Cabot  is  translated  into  English  by  Makkham, 
Journals,  207. 

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general  de  las 

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la  nueua  Es- 


ks,  were  printed 

suaJJy   made,  by 

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eariiest  edition 

tr>    Italian   and 

ish  translations 

and  1596. 

n,  Dictionary  of 

lich  is   "said   to 

his  capacity  of 
6,  had  abundant 
*■  "litht  have  in- 
es,  but  he  stems 
It  contains  liitle 
tyr."— Deane  in 

p.  xxxix,  <•  Los 
thastian,  in    ac- 

in  his  Decades, 

icholls.  Bristol, 
orrecied  by  the 
f  the  account  of 


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af.    Capitula. 
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Grafton,  Richard. 

A  chronicle  at  large  and  meere  History  of  the  af- 
fayres  of  Englande  and  Kinges  of  the  same,  deduced 
from  the  creation  of  the  worlde,  and  so  by  conlynu- 
aunce  unto  the  first  yere  of  the  reigne  of  our  queene 
Elizabeth,  collected  out  of  sundry  aucthors. — London, 
Denham,  156S-1569. 

3  vols,  folio. 

Reprinted  by  Ellis  as  "  Grafton's  chronicle,  or,  history  of  Eng- 
land, to  which  is  added  his  table  of  the  bailiffs,  sherifts,  and  may- 
ors,  of  the  city  ot  London,  ironi  1189  to  155S. — London,  1S09." 
2  vols,  folio. 

The  passage  concerning  Cabot  is  found  in  vol.  ii.  132,^,  or  ii. 
533,  of  the  1809  edition.  It  is  also  in  the  Abridgements  which 
Grafton  published  from  1563  till  1572.     See  1571  ed.,  fo.  174. 

Sf e  note  under  Crowley,  above,  from  whose  Chronicle  this 
passage  appears  to  have  been  borrowed. 


Grajales. 

A  manuscript  copy  of  the  lee^ends  to  the  Cabot  map,  in  the 
handwriting  of  Dr.  Grajales,  a  learned  Spaniard,  was  iound  by 
Harrisse  in  the  Royal  Library  at  Madrid,  and  led  him  to  declare 
that  Cabot  may  have  furnished  the  data  to  Grajales,  who  prepared 
the  text. 

"  There  does  not  seem  to  be  evidence  that  Grajales  may 
not  have  copied  them  from  another  copy,  or  from  the  printed 
sheets." — VVinsor,  Controversies,  13. 


HAKI.UYT. 

A  particular  discourse  concerning  the  greate  neces- 
sitie  and  manifolde  comodyties  that  are  like  to  growe 
to  this  Realmeot  England  by  the  Westerne  discoveries 
lately  attempted,  written  in  the  yere  1584,  by  Richarde 
Hackluyt  of  Oxforde,  at  the  requeste  and  direction  of 
the  right  worshipfull  Mr.  Walter  Raghly,  .... 

This  treatise  was  first  printed  by  the  Maine  Historical  Society, 
in  volume  ii.  of  its  Documentary  History,  (Cambridge,  1S77; 
pp.  1x1+253.5  facsimiles.  See  note  under  '^on\..  Discovery).  It 
was  edited  by  Charles  Deane  and  Leonard  Woods. 

In  Goldsmid's  Edinburgh  editions  of  Hakluyt,  the  Western 
Planting  is  printed  in  vol.  xiii  (America,  ii)  160-276. 

In  this  argument,  which  was  intended  to  influence  the  Qiieen, 
Hakluyt  uses  the  conversation  at  the  house  of  Fracastor,  from  Ra- 
Musio  (see  note  under  La  Popellinikke,  below)  to  support  1496 
as  the  date  of  Cabot's  discovery. 

This  date  is  repeated  on  tlie  map  by  "  F.  G.  S."  inserted  in  Hak- 
luyt's  edition  of  Martyr,  Decades,  published  in  Paris,  1587. 


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Hakluyt,  continued. 

Divers  voyages  touching  the  discouerie  of  America, 
and  the  Hands  adiacent  vnto  the  same,  made  first  of 
all  by  our  Englishmen,  and  afterward  bj  the  French- 
men and  Britons  :  And  certaine  notes  .  .  .  necessarie 
for  such  as  shall  heereafter  make  the  like  attempt. — 
Lon-don,  for  Thomas  VVoodcocke,  1582, 

59  II.  2  maps,  small  ^to. 

Reprinted  by  the  Hakluyt  Society,  edited  by  JoNBS,  London, 
1850. 

The  passages  relating  to  Cabot  are  on  11  7-10  (1582  ed.)  or  pp. 
19-26  (1S50  ed.) 

This  little  volume  contains,  besides  the  quotations  from  Fabyan 
and  Cabot's  letter  lo  Ramusio,  from  the  preface  to  the  third  volume 
of  the  iVrtr/J^rt/;o«/',  the  interesting  statement  that  Sebastian  Ca- 
bot's maps  and  discourses  were  in  the  possession  of  one  of  his  old 
associates,  William  Worthington,  who  was  willing  to  have  them 
examined  or  published.  It  also  contains  the  maps  mentioned  be- 
low under  Lok  and  Thorne. 

The  principall  navigations,  voia-ges  and  discoveries 
of  the  English  nation,  made  by  Sea  or  ouer  Land,  to 
the  most  remote  and  farthest  distant  Qiiarters  of.  the 
earth  at  any  time  within  the  compasse  of  these  1500. 
yeeres :  .  .  .  including  the  English  valiant  attempts 
in  searching  al-most  all  the  corners  of  the  vaste  and 
new  world  of  America,  from  73.  de-grees  of  Northerly 
latitude  Southward,  .  .  .  By  Richard  Hakluyt  Master 
of  Artes,  and  Student  sometime  of  Christ-church  in 
Oxford. — London,  Bishop  and  Newberie,  1589. 

S  11+pp.  825+5  "•  map.  folio. 
The  Cabot  documents  are  on  pp.  50Q-516. 
Cited  as  Hakluvt,  Principall  Navigations. 
Ten  years  later,  Hakluyt  issued  a  new  collection,  revised  and 
amplified,  as  ioUows : 

The  principal  navi-gations,  voiages,  traffiques  and 
disco-ueries  of  the  English  Nation.. .  By  Richard  Hak- 
luyt.— London,  Bishop,  Newberie  and  Barker,  1598- 
1600. 

3  vols,  folio. 

•'The  Third  and  last  volvme  .  .  .  to  all  parts  of  the  Newfound 
world  of  America  .  .  .  Collected  by  Richard  Haklvyt  Preacher 
.  .  .  1600."    Sll-hppS6S.  folio. 

For  the  Cabot  documents,  see  pp.  4-11,  and  498-499. 

Cited  as  Hakluyt,   Voyatres. 

The  Cabot  documents  ana  narratives  printed  by  Hakluyt  were 
reprinted  in  Old  South  Leaflet  no.  37,  (Boston  1895)  with  a  short 
supplementary  quotation  from  Fiske,  jDiscovery  of  America,  and 
some  bibliographical  suggestions  by  Edwin  D.  Mead,  the  editor 
of  the  series.    Also  in  Anier,  Histor.  Leaflet,  ix.  pp.  10-14. 

34 


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e  of  America, 

made  first  of 

>'  the  French- 

.  necessarie 

ke  attempt. — 

Jones,  London, 

(1582  ed.)  or  pp. 

nsfrom  Fabyan 
the  third  volume 
t  Sebastian  Ca- 
of  one  of  his  old 
ig  to  have  them 
s  mentioned  be- 

d  discoveries 
uer  Land,  to 
arters  of.  the 
these  1500. 
int  attempts 
le  vaste  and 
of  Northerly 
Iklujt  Master 
ist-church  in 
1589. 


'n,  revised  and 

affiques  and 
ichard  Hak- 
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the  Newfound 
dvyt  Preacher 


Hakhiyt  were 
)  with  a  short 
America,  and 
:ad,  the  editor 
•  I0.I4. 


Hakluyt,  continued. 

"A  new  edition,  with  additions  "  in  J  voluities,  was  published  in 
an  edition  of  325  copies,  in  London,  1S0Q-1812.  This  included  the 
suppressed  portions  of  the  original  editions,  and  some  very  valu- 
able  supplementary  narratives. 

An  editif^n,  edited  by  Edmund  Goldsmid,  was  published  in  Ed- 
inburgh, 1885-1890.  xv'i  volumes,  Svo. 

Volumes  xii-xv  were  also  issued  with  a  separate  title,  as  fol- 
lows : 

The  voyages  of  the  English   nation  to  America  Before  the 

vear  1600.  from  Hakluyt's  collection  of  voyages.    (159S-1600.) 

fedited  by  Edmund  Goldsmid.— Edinburgh,  Goldsmid,  1889- 

1890.  (27S1.3) 

4  vols.  Svo. 

The  Cabot  documents  are  in  i.  (xii)    19-34,  and   iv.  (xv) 
120-123. 

•'  I  have,  in  my  complete  Edition  of  Hakluyt's  Voyages,  ar- 
ranged the  Contents  of  his  first  two  volumes  in  tne  order  he  would 
have  desired,  had  he  not  '  lacked  sufficient  store,'  "  Editor's  note, 
p.  7,  vol.  xii,  or  America,  i. 

See  under  Galvano,  for  Hakluyt's  edition  of  the  Discoveries. 

Harrisse,  Henry. 

Jean  et  Sdbastien  Cabot,  leur  origine  et  leurs  voy- 
ages. Etude  d'histoire  critique,  suivie  d'tme  carto- 
graphie,  d'une  bibliographic  et  d'une  chronologic  des 
voyages  au  Nord  Quest,  de  1495  a  1550.  D'apres  des 
documents  in^dits. — Paris,  Leroux,  1882. 

PP-  39.';'  miip.  large  Svo. 

Issued  in  Schefer  et  Cordier,  Reciieil  de  voyages  et  de,  docu- 
ments poiinervir  h  Phistoire  de  la  gioffraphie,  xiii-xvi  siHle. 

See  the  note  at  the  beginning  of  this  section,  above. 

Hart. 

American  History  told  by  contemporaries.  Volume  i. 
Era  of  colonization,  1492-1689.  Edited  by  Albert 
Bushnell  Hart. — New  York,  Macmillan,  1897. 

pp.  xviii-(-6o6.  Svo. 

The  references  to  Cabot's  voyages  in  the  letter  of  PAsqiMLIGO 
and  the  dispatches  of  Kaimondo  di  Soncino  are  printed  on  pp. 
69-72. 

Henry  VII. 

The  Letters  patentes  of   King  Henry   the    Scuenth 

granted    vnto    lohn    Cabolo    and   his   three    sonncs, 

Lewis,  Sebastian,  and    Sancius   for  the  discouerie  of 

new  and  vnknowen  lands. 

Dated  "  apud  Westmonasterivm  quinto  die   Martij."  (g  March 

Original  manuscript  in  the  Public  Record  Office,  London  ( French 
Rolls,  II  Hen.  vii,  m.  23.) 


^.S 


Henry  VII,  continued. 

The  Latin  text  was  printed  by  Hakluyt,  Divers  Voyages, 
19  (1850  edition);  Voyages,  iii.  4.  Also  in  Rvmek,  Foedera  v.  pt. 
iv.  8y;  and  in  Chalmers'  and  Hazard's  Historical  Col  lee 
tions. 

Hakluyt  gives  an  English  translation  in  Divers  Voyages, 
21-22;  Voyages,  iii.  4;  rt printed  in  Old  South  Leaflet  37. 
Both  texts  are  in  American  History  Leaflet  ix.  2-5.  Other  Eng- 
lish  versions  are  in  Makkham,  Journals,  197-199;  Nicholls, 
Bristol,  iii,  ay^. 

[Gratuity  "  to  hym  that  founde  the  new  Isle,"  10 
August,  1497. 

The  original  entries  of  the  privv  purse  expenses  of  King  Henry 
VII  were  in  the  Remembrancer  office,  where  a  copy  was  made  by 
Mr.  Craven  Orde,  which  is  now  in  the  British  Museum,  (Addil. 
Mss.  7099,  i2  Henrie  VII.  fo.  41.) 

See  note  under  Nicolas.  Also  printed  in  Biddle,  Memoir, 
79,  which  see  for  a  valuable  note. 

[Pension  of  £20  per  annum  granted  to  John  Cabot, 
13  December,  1497. 

The  original  manuscript  is  in  the  Record  Office,  London.  {Privy 
Seal,  Dec.  13  Henr.  VII.  no.  40.) 

This  text  was  first  made  known  by  Mr.  Deane.  who  printed  it  in 
WiNSOK,  America,  iii.  56.  Also  printed  in  Harrisse,  Cabot, 
302. 

[New  Letters  Patent  granted  to  John  Kabotto,  or  Ca- 
boto,  dated  "  apud  Westimonasterium  lercio  die  Feb- 
ruarij,"  (London,  3  February,  1498.) 

The  oriifinal  Latin  document  is  in  the  Record  Office,  London, 
{French  Roll.  13  Hen.  VII    no.  439.  m.  i.) 

This  text  was  first  printed   by  Harkisss,  Cabot,  393-39^. 

A  contemporary  English  translation,  now  in  the  Record  Office 
{Chancery  Signed  Bills,  13  Hen.  VII.  no.  6.)  was  discovered  by 
Mr.  Biddle  in  1S31,  and  printed  in  his  Memoir,  74-7S.  Reprinted 
in  Makkham,  Journals,  206-207;  Nicholls,  Bristol,  iii.  296; 
COHHY,  Bristol,  I.  311.312.  Desimoni  printed  a  "revised  text," 
in  his  Intorno,j,b-<:,l. 

The  Rolls  Office  memorandum  of  this  licence  was  printed  by 
Hakluyt  in  1589.  but  its  real  significance  remained  whollv  unsus- 
pected until  the  document  was  found  and  printed  in  full  by  Mr. 
Biddle. 

[Warrant  for  the  payment  of  John  Caboote's  pension. 
"  Geven  undre  oure  prive  seal  at  oure  Manor  of  Shene 
the  xxii  day  of  ffebruary  the  xiii  'ere  of  oure  reign," 
(22  February  1498). 

Printed  in  Harrisse,  Cabot,  394;  and  in  Prowse,  Newfound- 
land, 12. 

26 


l:.l 


T,  Dners  Voyaffes, 
YMEK,  Foedera  v  pt! 
Historical     Collec 

in  Divers    Vovaffes, 
if     South   Leaflet   vj 
'X.   2.5.    Other  Ene- 

'97-199;     NlCHOLL*. 

le  new   Isle,"  10 

!nsesof  King  Henry 

a  copy  was  made  by 

sn   iMuseiim,  (Addit. 

n   BiDDLE,  Memoir, 


1  to  John  Cabot, 

fice, London.  {Privy 

ine  who  printed  it  in 
1  Harrissk,   Cabot, 

n  Kabotto,  or  Ca- 
rl tercio  die  Feb- 

:ord  Office,  London, 

'^^"^  393-39  f. 

n  the  Record  Office 


ice  was  nrintrd  by 
ned  wholly  unsiis- 
ted   in    full  by  Mr. 

boote's  pension. 
Vlanor  of  Shene 
of  oure  reign," 

OWSE,  Nezvfound. 


Henry  VII,  continued. 

[Loan  of  £20  to  Lanslot  Thirkill,  of  London;  22 
March  149S. 

From  the  privy  purse  expenses  of  Henry  VII,  (British  Museum, 
additional  Mss.  No.  7099) ;  see  note  to  the  *•  Gratuity "  :)f  10 
August,  1497,  above. 

Printed  in  Nicolas.  Excerpta  Hixtorica,  116. 

This  loan  was  "  for  hir>  shipp  going  towards  the  new  lande." 
Harrisse  stales  that  "  this  individual  was  evidently  a  companion  of 
John  Cabot,  and  owner  of  one  of  the  vessels  in  ihe  squadron  " 
which  sailed  in  1498.  There  seems,  however,  to  be  no  evidence 
that  he  accompanied  his  ship,  so  that  his  presence  in  London 
in  1501  need  not  be  conclusive  evidence  of  the  return  of  that  or  of 
anv  other  ship  of  the  149S  expedition.  This  would  remove  "  the 
only  thing,  thus  far,  wliich  is  known  concerning  the  results  of  that 
vovage,  except,  by  implication,  the  delineations  in  T.^a  Cosn's  plani- 
sphere " —  Harrisse,  Cabot,  ig^. 

Other  similar  loans  and  gratuities  bytlie  King  were  recorded  on 
I  April,  made  to  Thomas  Thirkill,  Thomas  Bradley,  and  John 
Carter,  all  of  whom  were  "  going  to  the  newe  ile." 

Herrera. 

Historia  General  de  los  hechos  de  los  Castellanos 
en  las  Islas  i  tierra  fi-rnie  del  Mar  oceano  esc-iita  por 
Antonio  de  Herrera  cornoisia  mayor  de  sv  Md. . .  .En 
quatro  Decadas  desde  el  Ano  de  1492  hasta  el  de 
1531. —  Madrid,  emprenta  real,  1601-1615. 

There  are  eight  decades,  each  witli  its  own  title  and  pagination, 
having  between  293  and  377  pages  text,  but  they  are  usually  bound 
in  four  volumes;  folio. 

The  best  edition,  as  well  as  the  most  available,  was  published  at 
Madrid.  (i726)-i7^o,  edited  by  Andres  Gonzales  Barcia. 

The  first  three  decades  were  translated  into  French  and  printed 
at  Paris,  16J9-1671.  These  decades  were  translated  into  Entflish 
by  Captain  John  Stevens  and  printed  in  London,  1725.1726;  reiss'  ;d 
in  1740. 

References  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  Spanish  services  occur  in  Dec. 
I.  lib,  ix.  cap.  xiii,  Dec.  III.  lib.  iv,  cap.  xx,  and  lib.  ix.  cap.  iii, 
and  Dec.  IV.  lib.  viii.  cap.  xi. 

HiGGINSON. 

A  book  of  American  Explorers  by  Thomas  Went- 
worth  Higginson. —  Boston,   Lee  and   Shepard,    1S77. 

H. 

Pp.  367.     Svo. 

A  few  Cabot  documents  are  on  pp.  55-59. 

HoLlNbHED. 

1577.  The  Firste  [Laste]  volumes  of  the  Chronicles 
of  Englande,  Scot-lande,  and  Irelande.  P'aithfullj 
gathered  and  set  forth  [compiled]  by  Raphaell  Holin- 
shed. — London.     H.,  B.  P.  L. 

2  vols,   folio. 

See  ii.  1714  for  the  passage  referring  to  Cabot. 

87 


1     I 


JOMARD,      EdME-FrANIJOIS 

Les  monuments  de  la  geographic  ou  recueil  d'anci- 
ennes  cartes  Eiirop^ennes  et  Orientales,  publics  en  fac- 
simile de  la  grandeur  des  originaux,  par  M.  Jomardi 
—  Paris,  1855-1862.     B.  P.  L. 

83  plates,  imperial  folio. 

In  this  iiiaK'iiifirent  work,  which  reproduces  21  maps,  each  in  the 
size  ot  its  original,  the  Cosa  map   is  no,   xvi,  and  the  Cabot  map, 
in  four  plates,  no.  xx. 
In  connection  with  tliis  work,  see 

Introduction  k  I'Atlas  des  Monuments  de  la  G^ographie 
par  feu  M.  Joinard,  publi^e  par  les  soins  et  avec  des  remar- 
ques  de  M.  E.  Coriambert. —  Paris,  1S79.    pp.  60.  Svo.     H. 

La  Cosa. 
Entered  above  under  Cosa. 

La  Popelliniere,  Lancelot  Voisin  de. 

Les  trois  mondes,  par  le  seignevr  de  la  Popelliniere. 
— Paris,  Pierre  I'Huillier,  1582. 

II.  28+55+56+51  •  map.  Svo. 

This  compilation  of  translations  from  various  authors  contains 
Gomara's  account  of  Sebastian  Gauot's  discovery,  with  a  variation 
in  the  northern  latitude  reached,  and  Ramusio's  report  of  the  con- 
versation  at  the  house  of  Fracastor,  on  fo.  25  of  livre  II.  This  ver- 
sion of  the  famous  conversation  was  used  by  Hakluyt  for  the  trans- 
lation embodied  in  his  Discourse  of  1584. 

Lelewel. 

Geographic  du  mojen  age,  etudide  par  Joachim 
Lelewel. —  Bruxclles,  1850-1852. 

4  (in  3)  volumes,  8vo.     Atlas,  oblong  Svo. 

A  most  useful  study  of  mediaeval  geography,  illustrated  by  ad- 
mirable engravings  from  maps  and  charts. 

Reference  to  the  Cabot  vo\age  in  §  190,  ii.  140. 

Gives  the  most  important  of  the  maps  which  suggest  the  Cabot 
discoveries.     See  notes  to  Cosa  and  RuvscH. 

LOK. 

Illvstri  viro,  domino  Philippo  Sidnaeo  Michael  Lok 
civis  Londinensis  banc  chartam  dedicabat:  1582. 

Woodcut  map,  15  by  11, ^^  inches. 

Published  with  Hakluyt,  Divers  Voyages,  although  often 
lacking  in  copies  of  that  book. 

Lok's  map  is  the  earliest  instance  of  the  correct  date  for  Cabot's 
discovery  in  a  printed  document,  and  it  offers  beside  a  clear  recog- 
nition  of  John  Cabot's  agency  in  the  discovery. — Winsor,  Con- 
troversies, g. 

Facsimiles  Sre  in  Jones  edition  of  Divers  Vovn^es,  London, 
1850;  Winsor,  America,  iii.  40,  and  iv.  44;  Catalogue,  Library  of 
John  Carter  Broivn,  Part  i.  2S8,  Providence,  1875. 

See  note  on  Lok's  translation  if  Martyk,  Z>^<:rtc/^A-,  under  that 
name,  below. 

2S 


I  1  .  ;  [ 


! 


e  ou  lecueil  d'anci- 
ales,  publics  en  fac- 
ux,  par  M.  Jomard* 


:es  21  maps,  each  in  the 
cvi,  and  the  Cabot  map, 

lents  de  la  Geographic 
oins  et  avec  des  remar- 
1879.    pp.  60.  Svo.     H. 


5IN  DE. 

de  laPopelliniere, 


■lous  authors  contains 
oyery,  with  a  variation 
sio's  report  of  the  con- 
sot  livre  II.  This  ver- 
'Haicluyt  for  the  trans- 


dide    par  Joachim 

)l>y,  illustrated  by  ad- 

[40. 

ich  suggest  the  Cabot 


>£Eo  Michael  Lok 
cabal:  1582. 

g'es,    although   often 

rrect  date  for  Cabot's 

beside  a  clear  recog-. 

very.—Winsor,  Con- 

s  Voyages,  London, 
taloffue.  Library  of 

1875. 

Z><'trt(/^A-,  under  that 


Marino. 

[Letter  from  Hieronimo  de  Marino  to  Sebastian 
Cabot,  dated  Venice,  28  April  1523. 

Oriirinnl  copy  in  Venice  (  Capi  del  Consiglio  de'  Died.  Letterc 
sottoscritte  Filza  no.  6,  1523). 

Printed  in  Bullo,   Vera  Patria,  68. 

Translated  into  English  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar  (  Venice) 
iii.  no.  669;  and  in  Markham,  Journal,  325. 

Markham,  Sir  Clements  Robert. 

T'^e  journal  of  Christopher  Columbus  (During  his 
First  Voyage,  1492-93),  and  documents  relating  to  the 
voyages  of  John  Cabot  and  Caspar  Corte  Real.  Trans- 
lated, with  Notes  and  an  Introduction,  by  Clements 
R.  Markham. —  London,  Hakluyt  Society,  1S93. 

pp.  liv-f-259.    Svo. 

John  Cabot,  ix;  Sebastian  Cabot,  xxii-xliv.  Documents,  197- 
226. 

Gives  excellent  English  versions  of  all  the  more  important 
sources  of  information. 

Martyr  —  Pietro  Martire  d'Anghiera. 

De  orbe  nouo  Decades —  (Colophon  ;  Alcala,  No- 
uebris,  1516.) 

S3II.  lolio. 

This  edition  contains  the  first  three  Decades.  They  were  re- 
printed at  Basle,  1^33,  with  the  abridgement  of  the  fourth  decade, 
which  had  been  prmted  in  that  city  in  1521 ;  and  again  at  Cologne 
in  1574.  A  portion,  9  books  of  the  first  decade,  had  previously 
been  printed  at  Hispali,  1511. 

The  complete  work,  in  eight  decades,  was  first  printed  in  1530,  at 
Compluti,  (Alcala,  Spain);  reprinted  at  Paris  in  1587,  edited  by 
Hakluyt. 

In  his  edition,  Hakluyt  inserted  a  map  by  "  F.  G.  S."  which 
has  "  Bacallaos  Ab  Anghs,  1496,"  inscriBed  on  the  Labrador 
mainland  just  north  of  the  St.  Laurence  river.  See  note  to  Hak- 
luyt,  Western  Planting. 

An  English  translation  of  the  first  three  Decades,  published  in 
1555,  is  entered  above  under  Eden.  Michael  Lok  republished 
Eden's  version,  with  the  addition  of  the  remaining  five  books, 
which  he  translated  out  of  Hakluyt's  Paris  edition, — London,  1612; 
1628;  and  undated,  possibly  1597,  perhaps  later  than  162S.  See 
note  in  Sabin,  Dictionary  oj  American  Books,  xi.  252;  New 
York,  1S79. 

The  reterences  to  'Cabot  are  in  Decade  iii,  lib.  vi.  (fol.  xlvi, 
1530  edition).  A  facsimile  of  this  page  is  in  Winsou,  America, 
iii.  15.  Compare  the  paraphrase  in  Ramusio,  iii.  fol.  35-36,  1565 
edition. 

Translated  into  English  by  Eden,  Decades,  \iS-i\().  This  text 
is  '•  revised  by  theoriginal,"  by  Deane,  in  Winsor,  America,  iii. 
12-14.    Another  version   is  in  Makkham,  y(y«;'//(»/.';,  209-211. 

Other  references  to  Cabot  are  in  Decade  vii,  lib.  vii,  (fol.  xcvii, 
1530  editicm). 

39 


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Martyr,  continued. 

"  This  account  by  Martyr  is  the  earliest  which  we  have  of  the 
printed  narratives  of  Cabot's  voyages,  and  Martyr  doubtless  ob- 
tained the  details  from  Sebastian  Cabot,  who  is  Itnown  to  have 
been  his  friend." — Winsor,  Controversies,  y. 

This  account  was  borrowed  by  Jacob  Zi&glek  for  the  chapter 
"  de  Schondia,"  in  his  Opera  7'rtr'',  (Strasbourg,  1532),  fo.  xcii, 
verso,  wiiere  he  speaks  of  Sebastian  as  "  Anthony  "  Cabot.  Trans- 
lated into  English  by  EoEN,  Decades,  267-270.  See  the  passage  in 
Eden,  263,    verso,   for  the  marginal  note,    •'  Cabot    tould   me." 

Mason. 

Newfovnd  land  described  b_y  Captaine  lohn  Mason 
an   industrious  Gent:   who  spent  seuen  yeares  in  the 
Countrej-. 
Copperplate  map,  6  3-4  by  lo  1-2  inches. 

Belongs  in 

The  Golden  Fleece  Diuided  into  three  Parts  and  lastly 
the  wayes  to  get  -wealth,  and  to  restore  Trading  so  much 
com-pfayned  of.  Transported  from  CambriolT  Colchos, 
out  of  the  Southermost  Part  of  the  Hand,  commonly  called 
the  Nevjfovndland ^By  Orpheus  Junior. — London,  lor  Fran, 
cis  Williams,  1626. 

14II,  pp.  i49-f-ios-|-96.  map.  small  4to. 

"Written  by  William  Vaugiin. 

This  map  was  probably  not  issued  with  John  Mason's  own 
tract;  A  briefe  dtscovrse  of  the  Nevv-founa-land, — Edinbvrgh, 
Andro  Hart,  1620.     (7II,  small  4to.) 

At  Cape  Bona  Vista  are  the  words,  "  a  Caboto  primum  reperta;" 
and  a  legend  in  the  lower  lelt  corner  begins,  *'  Insula  olim  appel- 
lata  Noua  Terra  a  Cabota   Veneto  primu  reperta  Anno  Diil  1499." 

Reproduced  in  facsimile  in  Winsor,  America^  viii.  18S; 
Prowse,  Nevjfoundland,  106. 

MoLiNEUx,  Emmerie  (or  Emeric). 

Thou  hast  here  (gentle  reader)  a  true  hydrograph- 
ical  description  of  so  much  of  the  world  as  hath  beene 
hetherto  discouered,  and  is  comne  to  our  knowledge  : 

Engraved  map,  25  1-4  by  18  1-2  inches. 

Issued  with  a  few  copies  of  Hakluyt,   Voyages,  1599  1600. 

This  very  rare  map  has  gained  considerable  reputation  from  the 
suggestion  sustained  by  Mr.  C.  H.  Co»te  in  a  paper  before  the 
New  Shakspere  Society,  (Transactions,  1S78,  I.  SS-ioo),  that  this 
nap  is  the  one  referred  to  by  Shakspere  in  Twelfth  Night,  Act 
ii,  scene  2,  as  •*  the  new  map  with  the  augmentation  of  the 
Indies." 

In  a  ver/  suggestive  note  to  the  separate  reprint  of  Mr.  Coote's 
papCi,  Ecrnr..'d  Quaritch  states  that  "the  fact  had  already  been 
stated  by  me  in  a  catalogue  now  four  years  old;  "  (catalogue  no. 
321,  Bihliotheca  Geographico-Lingutstica,  London,  February 
1879;  book  no.  1 '919,  pp.  1183-4.)  Mr.  Quaritch  does  not  refer  to 
Twelfth  Night  in  the  notes  to  the  copies  of  Hakluyt,  Voyages, 
containing  the  facsimile  of  this  map,  which  were  advertised  in  his 
Catalogue  no.  294,  Voyages  and  Travels,  London,  January,  1875, 
book  nos.  1623-1632,  pp.  157-158. 

30 


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I  '.  t !  ! 


'  ■  I  • '  _ 


hich  we  have  of  the 
lartyr  doubtless  ob- 
is  known  to  have 

LER  for  the  chapter 
'urg-,  1532),  fo.  xcii, 
ony"  Cabot.  Trans- 
See  the  passage  in 
Cabot    tould   nie." 


ine  lohn  Mason 
en  jeares  in  the 


ee  Parts  and  lastly 
t  Tradinff  so  much 
ambriolJ  Colchos, 
d,  commonly  calltd 
-London,  ibr  Fran- 


fohn  Mason's  own 
•/awt/,— Edinburgh, 

oprimum  reperta;" 
Insula  olim  appel- 
ta  Anno  Diii  1499," 
merica,    viii.    18S; 


ue  hjdrograph- 
J  as  hath  beene 
ur  knowledge  ; 

"t  '599  1600. 
eputation  from  the 
*  paper  before  the 
.88.100),  that  this 
welftk  Night,  Act 
^mentation  of  the 

nt  of  Mr.  Coote's 
had  already  been 
; "  (catalojfue  no. 
ondon,  February 
does  not  refer  to 
akluyt,  Voyages, 
'■  advertised  in  his 
on,  January,  1S75, 


I 


I 


MoLlNEUX,  continued. 

Mr.  Coote  repeated  his  observ^itions  on  the  "  New  Map  "  in  a 
note  appended  to  the  Introduction  to  Markham,  Davis's  loyagi's, 
p.  Ixxxv-xcv.  Captain  Markham,  in  the  same  volume,  pp.xxxiii, 
xi,364,  gives  his  reasons  lor  suspecting  that  the  true  author  of  this 
map  was  Edward  Wright,  a  matliematician  who  perfected  and 
rendered  practicable  what  is  now  known  as  Mercalor's  Projection, 
which  he  demonstrated  in  his  Ci'rtain  Errors  in  Navijfation 
Dftected,  1599;  first  introducing  the  formula;  accurately  in  this  map. 

The  date,  1497,  on  the  coast  of  Labrador  in  this  map,  is  espe- 
cially interesting  when  taken  in  connection  with  the  change  from 
1494  to  1497  made  by  Hakluyt  in  the  1599  edition  of  his  Voyages, 
lor  which  this  map  may  have  been  drawn. 

A  photo-facsimile  was  issued  in  separate  cover  with  the  Hakluyt 
Society  edition  of  Davis's  Voyages,  edited  by  Captain  Markham, 
London,  18S0.  Twenty-five  copies  of  an  autotype  facsimile  of  a 
later  impression,  with  changes,  was  issued  by  Mr.  Quaritch  in 
1874.  Cat.  no.  294,  book  no.  1632.  See  reference  in  preceeding 
note. 

MUNSTER. 

See  the  English  translation  of  Sebastian  Munster's  Cosmogra. 
phia  uniuersalis,  (Basle,  1550)  under  EouN,  Treatyse,  1555. 

Navagero. 

[Dispatch  from  Andrea  Navagero  to  the  govern- 
ment of  Venice,  dated  21  September  1525. 

Original  manuscript  among  the  Cicogna  Mss.  in  Venice,  (1985. 
C.223.) 

Printed  in  BULLO  Vera  Patria,  69. 

The  important  passage  referring  to  Cabot  is  printed  in  Hak- 
RissE,  Cabot,  405. 

Translated  into  English  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar 
(  Venice)  iii.  no.  1155,  p.  481. 

Navarrete. 

Coleccion  de  los  viages  y  descubrimientos,  que  hi- 
cieron  por  mar  los  espafloles  desde  fines  del  siglo  xv, 
con  varios  documentos  indditos.  .  .  .  Coordinada  i 
ilustrada  por  don  Martin  Fernandez  dg  Navarrete, — 
Madrid,  en  la  imprenta  Real,  1825-1837. 

5  vols.  4to. 

Documents  referring  to  Cabot  are  in  iil.  319,  iv.  339,  v.  333. 

For  other  works  by  Sr.  Navarrete,  see  below  under  his  name. 

Nicolas. 

The  privy  purse  expenses  of  King  Henry  the  Eighth, 
from  November  M  D  xxix,  to  December  M  D  xxxii, 
with  introductory  remarks  and  illustrative  notes  by 
Nicholas  Harris  Nicolas. —  London,  Pickering,  1827. 

H. 
pp.  xlvi-|-372.  Svo, 

31 


I, , '  I  t 


:!      i 


I      I  ■■  h 


Nicolas,  continued.  > 

On  pp.  116-117  are  the  royal  loans  to  four  men  "going'  to  the 
newe  isle,"  made  22  March  and  1  April,  14Q8  See  entries  above 
under  Henry  vii,  ••  Loan  to  Lanslot  Thirkill." 

See  also  the  E.xcerpta  Ilistorica,  or  illustrations  of  Eufflish 
History ^  London,  iS.^i,  for  the  "gratuity  to  him  that  found  the  new 
Isle,"  io  August,  1497,  p.  ii^V  ^ee  IIarkissk,  6"«/»o/,  397-39S,  for 
comments  showing  that  entries  on  p.  129,  dated  1501  and  1502,  refer 
to  expeditions  undertaken  by  others  than  the  Cabots. 

Old  South  Leaflets. 

The  Voyages  of  the  Cabots.  From  Hakluyt's  "  Prin- 
cipal Navigations,  Voyages  and  Discoveries  of  the 
English  Nation." 

Old  South  LitiHets,  General  Series,  no.  37,  (Boston,  1S95),  pp. 
12,  Svo. 

The  original  narrative  is  supplemented  by  short  extracts  from 
FisKE,  Discovery  of  America,  and  by  a  suggestive  bibliograph- 
ical  note  by  the  editor  of  the  series,  Mr.  Edwin  D.  Mead. 

Ortelius. 
Thea  trvm  orbis  terra  rvm — (Colophon,  Antverpiae, 

1570.) 

53  maps,  text  37  11.  folio. 

The  first  edition  of  one  of  the  most  important  cartographical 
works  of  xvi.  century.  The  succeeding  editions,  in  various  Ian. 
guages,  well-nigh  rival  the  Ptolemies  in  value,  for  the  study  of  the 
growth  of  geographical  knowledge. 

A  map  by  Sebastian  Cabot  was  among  those  cited  by  Ortelius  at 
the  beginning  of  his  work:  "  Vniuersalem  Tabulam;  quam  im- 
pressam  aeneis  formis  vidimus,  sed  sine  nomine  loci,  &  inipres- 
soris."  Mr.  Biddle,  Memoir,  56,  used  this  fact,  in  connection 
with  the  maps  printed  by  Ortelius,  as  the  basis  for  several  sur- 
mises as  to  the  probable  aspect  of  Cabot's  map,  which  have  not 
been  substantiated  by  the  discovery  of  the  mappa-monde  of  1544, 
now  in  Paris. 

Oviedo. 

Historia  general  y  natural  de  las  Indias,  por  el  capi- 
tan  Gonzalo  Fernandez  de  Oviedo  y  Vald^s,  primer 
cronistadel  niievo  mundo.  Publicala  la  real  academia 
de  la  historia,  cotejada  con  el  codice  original,  enrique- 
cida  con  las  enmiendas  y  adiciones  del  autor,  e  iltis- 
trada  con  la  vida  y  el  juicio  de  las  obras  del  mismo  por 
D.  Jose  Amador  de  los  Rios. —  Madrid,  1851-1855. 

4  vols.  4to. 

'Ihe  Historia  C^wt'/'w/ was  written  by  order  of  Charles  v,  who 
appointed  Oviedo  "  Royal  Chronicler  of  the  Indies."  The  first 
nineteen  books  were  written  before  1532,  and  printed  in  KJS,  at 
Seville;  reprinted  at  Salmanca  in  1547.  These  include  the  history 
down  to  the  year  1527,  but  contain  no  mention  of  Sebastian  Cabot. 
The  remaining  books,  which  remained  in  manuscript  after  his 
death,  were  first  printed  in  1S52.     References  to  Cpbot's  expedition 

32 


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'  \\\.\\ 


'    ! 


^ 


r  men   '« going-  to  the 
5  ^^  See  entries  above 

slrations  of  Emr/ish 
mn  that  found  the  new 
■SK,  Cabot,  397.39S.  for 
|ted  1501  and  1503,  refer 
Cabots. 


Hakluj't's  "  Prin- 
)i6coveries  of  the 

1,  (Boston,  1S95),  PP- 

short  extracts  from 
^gestive  bibliograph. 
in  D.  Mead. 


hon,  Antverpiae, 


irtant  cartographical 
Lions,  in  various  Ian- 
:,  for  the  study  of  the 

cited  by  Ortelius  at 
Tabulam;  quam  im- 
)niine  loci,  &  inipres. 
'  fact,  in  connection 
asis  for  several  sur- 
map,  which  have  not 
appa-monde  of  1544, 


iias,  por  el  capi- 
'  Valdds,  primer 
la  real  academia 
riginal,  enrique- 
lel  autor,  e  iliis- 
s  del  misino  por 
1851-1855. 

of  Charles  v,  who 
Indies."  The  first 
printed  in  15^5,  at 
include  the  history 
f  Sebastian  Cabot, 
anuscript  after  his 
C}>bot's  expedition 


"^ 


OviEDo,  continued. 

to  Ijx  Plata  occur  in  the  earlier  ciiapters'  (lib.  vi,  caps.  xxxv,. 
xlii,)  ill  this  later  edition,  but  they  are  taken  from  manuscript  an. 
notations  made bv  Oviedo  in  his  copy  of  the  1535  edition. — llur- 
risse,  Crj/v;/,  462.463. 

The  important  passage  referring  to  Cabot;  lib.  xxiii,  cap.  ii; 
vol.  II.  U%)  (1S51  ed.)  is  reprinted  by  Hakkisse,  Cabot,  462,  with 
English  translations,  pp.  203,  228-229. 

PASCyjALIGO. 

[Letter  from   Lorenzo  Pasqualigo  in  London  to  his 
brothers  in  Venice,  dated  23  August,  1497- 

Preserved  in  the  Z>/V//'/V  of  Marin  Sanuto,  whose  manuscripts 
are  in  the  Marciana  Library  at  Venice. 

Printed  in  Sanuto,  Diarii,  Vene/ia,  1S79,  I.  So6-ScS;  and  in 
Rawdon  Mkown,  Rai^gtiali,  pt.  1.99. 

An  Englisli  version  of  this  very  important  narrative  of  tlie  first 
vovage  ot  "  Zuam  Talbot,"  by  Kawdon  Brown,  is  in  Ca/iiiJar 
(  I'l-iiici-)  I.  no.  752j  p.  262;  reprinted  in  Markbam,  Journals,  201. 
202;  in  Aifii'r.  Atiti(///aria/i  Sory.  /'roci-fdhii;^,  (21  October,  iS6j,) 
20-21;  AiHi'f.  IlUtory  Leaflets,  ix.  5-6;  in  Nova  Scotia  Hist, 
Sory.  C6>//(v7/V)//.s-,  ix.  35-36;  Nicholls,  A'rAVf)/,  iii.  294-5;  tlistoi-. 
iral  Mai>aziiic,-s.'\\\.  124;  Iligginson,  E\Hoi-i-rs,  i^s^-^Ci,  Another 
version  by  Cheyney,  is  in  the  Philobiblioii  So<  ii'ty  volume  tor 
September,  1S64. 

Ptolemy,  Cl.audius. 

See  150S  edition  of  Ptolemy,  Geography,  under  Ruysch. 
PURCIIAS. 

Pvrchas  his  pilgrimage,  or  relations  of  the  world  and 

the  religions  observed  in  all  ages  And  places  discouered 

...  .A  Theologicall  and  Geographicall  Ilistorie  of  Asia, 

Africa,  and  America,  with  the  Hands  Adiacent- . .  .By 

Samvel    Pvrchas,    Minister    at    Estwood   in   Essex. — 

London,  William  Stansby,  1613. 

14  H+pp.  752-(-io  11.  folio. 

There  were  two  editions  of  this  work  in  1614,  one  in  1617,  and' 
one,  the  best,  in  1626,  forming  the  fifth  volume  of  the  Pilgrimes. 

Haklvytvs  posthumus  oi"  Pvrchas  his  Pilgrimes. 
[vol.  iv.]  in  five  bookes.  The  sixth,  Contayning  Eng- 
lish Voyages,  to  the  East,  West,  and  South  parts  of 
America. — London,  Stansby,  1625. 

5  vols,  folio. 

The  best  guide  to  the  confused  bibliography  of  Purchas  is  that 
by  Mr.  Wilberforce  Eames,  in  Sabin,  Dictionary  of  American 
hooks,  xvi.  112-124,  New  York,  1SS6, 

For  the  important  references  to  the  London  1549  edition  of  the 
Cabot  map,  see  iii.  Scy,  S09;  iv.  1812. 

33 


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..',  ( 


R.MMONDO. 

[Dispatch  from  Raitnondodi  Soncino,  his  representa- 
tive in  England,  to  tlie  Duke  of  Milan,  datCv"  London 
24  August,  1497. 

The  original  docuiiient  is  in  the  Arcliives  of  the  Sforzas,  at 
Milan. 

An  Italian  text  is  printed  in  Hl'M.o,  f'i'ni  /'utrin.  6n,  which  is, 
accordinjj  to  Harrisse,  "apparently  a  translation  from  llawdon 
Browti's  "  English  version. 

Translated  into  English  by  Kawdon  Bkown,  in  Ctili-nJnf 
(  W-iiiii')  I.  no.  759,  p.  2(x);  reprinted  in  Ainrrimii  History  Lfaf- 
lit  ix.  6.7. 

Contains  an  important  allusion  to  John  Cabot's  return  from  his 
first  voyage, 

[Dispatch  from  London  to  the  Duke  of  Milan,  dated 

18  December,  1497. 

Tlieorijfinal  mam. script  is  in  Hie  state  archives  at  Milan  (  Potenze 
Kstii't'.     Iiii,>liiltt-rrii,  /y(P7  Di-<riiihr.) 

Printed  in  the  Aniii<iirii>  Sn'iiilijii o  del  1S65  (Milan,  1S66),  p. 
700;  in  Desimoni,  /utoritu,  ^;,.^y,  Pe/.zi,  ('(il'offo,  a^-^^. 

Translated  into  En>4lish  by  Professor  B.  H.  Nash  for  Mr. 
Dkane,  in  Winsor,  Ainerira',  iii.  C4-55;  reprinted  in  Ameriitin 
J'istory  Liiijfit  ix.7-9;  and  by  Sir  Clements  Makkham,  ,/('«/«<;/,<, 
203-206';  reprinted  by  Prowsk,  Niv.'Joiimilniiii,  11. 

Ramirez. 

[Letter  written  by  Luis  Ramirez,  10  July,  152S. 

Contemporary  copy  in  the  "  biblioteca  alta "  of  the  Escorial, 
Madrid. 

Printed  by  Adolfo  de  Varnhagen  in  Kt'vi'sto  trimeiiaal  do  fiisti. 
tiito  Jfi'ston'co  e  GeoiJ'rafiro  do  Jirazil,  Rio  de  Janeiro,  185^, 
XV.  14-41  • 

Translated  into  French,  from  another  manuscript  copy,  in 
NoHVi'/Zi's  Aiiiiiils  dfs   I'ovttifi's,  Paris,  184^  iii.  39-73. 

A  very  valuable  account  of  Cabot's  expedition  to  La  Plata  river. 

Ramusk),  Giovanni  Battista. 

Libro  prinio  della  histo  ria  de  Tin  die  oc  ciden-tali. 
Svmmario  de   la  generale   historia  de    I'indie   occi- 
dentali  cavato  da  li-bri  scritti  dal  Si-gnor  don  Pietro 

Martyre. —  (Colophon,  Vinegia,  Octobre  1534.) 

161  11.  map.    4to. 

Although  based  upon  Martyr's  first  three  decades,  the  original 
arrangement  is  entirely  disregarded,  many  facts  are  entirely  omit- 
ted, and  new  statements  are  introducecf  from  the  "many  other 
private  accounts,"  for  which  no  authority  is  given.  Of  these,  one 
of  the  most  noticeable  cases  is  that  referring  to  Cabot  in  Martyr's 
Decadf  iii,  cap.  vi. 

M.  d'Avezac,  in  his  Aii/ief  }'en'ttihli'  di'  In  jVaissanre  dv  Chris. 

tophe  Co/omb,  p.  10,  n.  S,  gives  some  facts  to  show  that  this  work, 

wnich  was  introduced  into  the  third  volume  of  the  Naviirationi  et 

Viiii{ffi  in   1556,  was  edited  by  Ramusio.    A   little  confirmatory 

evidence  is  in  VVinsok,  Ai/n'riru,  iii.  19-20. 

34 


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I 

:     I.. 

.     "< 

ii     IJ 


I'll 

iMlH 


ill 


ino,  his  lepresenta- 
lan,  date«'  London 

es  of  the   Sforzas,  at 

I  /'iitiiu,  60,  which  is, 
slation   fiDin  lluwdoti 

^HOWN,    in    Ca/t'iiJar 
ifriian  Historv  Leaf. 

ibot's  return  from  his 

ke  of  Milan,  dated 

ves  at  Mihin  (  Pot f me 

1865  (Milan,  1S66),  p. 
\ibotto,  44-4^>. 
B.  H.  Nash  for  Mr. 
printed  in  American 
VIakkham,  Journals, 
lii,  1 1. 


ojuly,  1528. 

ta"  of  the  Escorial, 

I  tri'iiieiisa/  do  liisti. 
Uo   de  Janeiro,   185.8, 

iianuscript    copy,    in 

.'•»•  39-73- 

ion  to  La  Plata  river. 


lie  oc  ciden-tali. 

de  I'indie  occi- 
-gnor  don  Pietio 
bre  1534.) 

lecades,  the  original 
:ts  are  entirely  omit- 
im  the  "  many  other 
iven.  Of  these,  one 
to  Cabot  in  Martyr's 

jYaissaiice  de  Chris. 

show  that  this  work, 

the  Navi^^ationi  et 

L.   little  confirmatory 


^ 


Ramlsio,  continued. 

Prinio  Volvme  delle  Navigalioni  et  \''iat?<;i  nel  qval 
si  contiene. . .  .la  Naiiigatione  attorno  il  niondo. — 
Venetia,  Givnti,  1550. 


II.  (4)-|-405,  folio. 
Reprinted  in    15.S4, 


i5()5,  and  1.SS7-S.    The  1^3  edition  has  Ram- 


usio's  name  on  the  title  as  editor. 

For  the  "  account  of  Sebastian  C'aboto  by  an  anonymous  jjuest  at 
the  house  of  flieronimus  Kracastor,"  at  Caphi,  near  Verona,  see 
fol.414  (i55()ed.) 

The  word  "  Manluan,"  a  clue  which  has  served  as  basis  for  sev- 
eral ingenious  attempts  to  identity  this  anonymous  individual,  was 
added  to  the  description  of  him,  by  the  editor  of  Ramusio's  manu- 
scripts, Tomaso  Giunti. 

Tliis  was  translated  into  English  by  Edkn,  Deiades,  fol.  255, 
from  whom  Hakmjyt,  \'ovair,s,  iii.  6-7,  sorrowed  it,  although  his 
marginal  note  refers  to  Uamusio.  Ilakluyt's  title  to  this  narra- 
tive reads ; 

"A  discourse  of  Sebastian  Cabot  touching  his  discouery 
of  part  of  the  West  India  out  of  England  in  the  time  of  king 
Henry  the  seuenth,  vsed  to  (.ialeacius  Rutrigarius  the  Popes 
Legate  in  Spaine,  and  reported  by  the  sayd  Legale." 

In  his  Jean  et  Sebastien  Cahot,  33S.  or  better  Cabot,  4^i3-4'35, 
Harrisse  follows  the  hints  suggested  by  d'Avezac  in  1S61  and  Deane 
in  1SS4,  and  shows  conclusively  that  inasmuch  as  Galeazzo 
Bottriuari,  or  Butrigario,  died  in  151S,  before  the  date  of  events 
which  Cabnt  is  reported  as  describing  to  the  "  Mantuan  gentle- 
man," these  two  could  not  have  been  the  same  person.  None  of 
the  other  guesses  at  his  identity  receive  the  approval  of  Harrisse. 
Deane,  in  Winsor,  America,  iii. 26,  accepts  the  arguments  of  Bullo 
and  Desimoni  proving  him  to  have  been  Gian  Giacomo  Bardolo. 

In  a  careful  study  of  this  passage,  in  the  lierne  Critique,  v.  26;, 
d'Avezac  fixes  the  date  of  the  reported  interview  as  approximately 
'S4'l  or  1545. 

There  is  another  English  version  of  the  conversation  in  Mark- 
ham,  Journals^  212-215.  See  also  Deane's  sunnnary,  in  Winsor, 
America,  iii.  25. 


Terzo  volvme  delle  navigationi  et  viaggi  nel  quale  si 
contengono  Le  Nauigationi  al  Mondo  Nuoiio. — Ven- 
etia, Givnti,  1556. 

11.  6+344-453.    13  maps,    folio. 

This  is  the  first  edition  of  volume  iii.     It  was  reissued  in  1565. 

In  the  preface,  fol.  4,  are  the  ''recollections  of  a  letter  from 
Sebastian  Cabot." 

Translated  into  English  by  Markham,  Journals,  211-212. 

Volume  ii  was  published  in  155S-9;  reissued  in  1573-4.  and  15S3. 

The  three  volumes  were  reprinted  in  1606,  in  what  is  perhaps  the 
most  satisfactory  working  edition.  Volume  i  of  this  edition  was 
reprinted  in  1613. 

The  best  collation  of  these  varioue  issues  is  that  by  Wilberforce 
Eames  in  Sabin,  Dictionary  of  Books  relating  to  America,  xvi. 
303-316;   New  York,  1886. 

35 


ma>*i^mmimmtm^ 


,"i 


RiBAUT,  Jean. 

The  whole  and  true  discouerie  of  Terra  Florida, 
(englished  the  Florishing  lande).  .  .  .  Written  in 
Frenche  by  Captaine  Rihauld  the  tyrst  that  whollye 
discouered  the  same.  And  nowe  newly  set  forthe  in 
Englishe  the  xxx.  of  May.  1563. — Prynted  at  London 
by  RoAvland  Hall,  for  Thomas  Hacket. 

23II.  small  Svo. 

Reprinted  by  Hakluyt,  Bi'rrrs  Voytij^t's,  fol.  E  2, or  pp. 91-115, 
Ilakluyt  Society  edition,  and  by  B.  F,  French,  Historical  Colli'c- 
tions   of  Loiiisiiiiici    and   Florida,  New    York,    1S75,   ii.    159-190. 

23S.14.2 

The  short  passage  referring- to  Cabot  is  on  leaf  Aiij,  or  p.  92  ot 
the  Hakhiyl  Society  edition  of  Diii'rs   Vf>\'iiir,'s. 

This  gives  the  year  149S,— the  actual  date  of  the  second  expedi- 
tion— as  that  in  which  "  a  very  famous  straunger  named  Sebastian 
Cabole  an  excellent  Pylot,  was  sent  thitiier  by  king  Henry."  Tiiis 
is  the  first  printed  occurrence  of  this  date,  although  Peter  Martyr 
in  1524  speaks  of  the  discovery  of  the  Bacallaos  twenty-six  years 
before. — Deane  in  Winsor,  America,  iii.  34, 


ii        ' 


!     .1 


RiBEIRO. 

Carta  universal  en  que  se  contiene  todo  lo  que  del 
mundo  Se  ha  descubierto  tasta  agora ;  Ilizola  Diego 
Ribero  Cosmographo  de  Su  Magestad  :  Aflo  de  1529. 

Or,  in  English : 

Universal  map,  containing  all  of  the  wcrld  that  has  yet 
been  discovered  :  drawn  by  Diego  Rihero,  Royal  Cosmo- 
grapher,  1529. 

Manuscript  map,  measuring  2173  by  891  mm.  In  the  Grand 
Ducal  Library  at  VV'eiinar. 

On  the  Labrador  coasts  is  a  legend  which  reads,  translated, 

•'  This  country  was  discovered  by  the  English,  there  is 
nothing  in  it  worth  having." 

On  a  somewhat  larger,  and  more  elaborate  map,  by  the  same 
author,  and  dated  the  same  year,  tliis  inscription  reads  : 

"  Which  was  discovered  by  the  English  fronj  the  city  of 
Bristol." 

See  the  account  of  these  maps  in  Hakkissb,  Z>/Vrr?rv/)',  569.575. 
There  is  a  careful  description  in  Kohl,  Dif  bi'idi'fi  dlti'steu  treneral- 
kartt'H  von  Anwrira,  Weimar,  1S60,  large  folio,  with  fac- 
simile of  the  portion  of  tlie  map  relating  to  America. 

Reproduced  in  Sprengel,  Vi-lwr  ,/.  Ribero'' s  til  teste  n\it'Charte, 
and  in  his  translation  of  Munoz,  (ieschi<lite  der  neuen  Welt,  Wei- 
mar, 1795;  Lhlkwkl,  G^oirrapliie,  atlas,  planches  xli-xlii;  Mur- 
phy, Verrazano,  129,  20S1.1;  De  Costa,  Verrazano  the  Explo- 
'"•.  43- 

36 


iitiiiiiii 


.M 


Terra   Florida, 

.   .  Written    in 

rst  that  whollje 

rly  set  forthe  in 

nted  at  London 


)I.  E  2, or  pp.Qi-iis, 
,  J/t'ston'cci/  Col  lee 
k,  1S7S,  ii.  159-190. 
23S.14.2 
leaf  Aiij,  or  p.  92  ot 

Ftlie  second  expedi- 
ter named  Sebastian 
kin^  Henry."  Tiiis 
ough  Peter  Martyr 
OS  iwenty-six  years 


todo  lo  que  del 
;  Hizola  Diego 
:  Afio  de  1529. 

wrrld  that  has  yet 
ero,  Royal   Cosmo- 

im.     In  the  Grand 

ids,  translated, 

e   English,  there  is 


map,  by  the  same 
in  reads  : 

ish  from  the  city  of 

Discovery,  569.575. 
■v/  iiltesten  generul- 
;  folio,  with  fac- 
erica. 

(i  I  teste  u\it-charte, 
r  netten  Welt,  Wei- 
:hes  xli-xlii;  Mur- 
razano  the   Explo- 


Romanin:,  Samuele. 

Storia  documentata  di  Venezia  di  S.  Romanin. — 
Venezia,  1853-1S61.     H. 

10  vols,  Svo. 

Contains,  iv.  453,  the  order  to  record  letters  of  naturalization 
granted  by  the  Semiteof  Venice  to  "  loani  Caboto,"in  consequence 
of  a  residence  of  15  years  in  the  city,  dated  2S  March,  1476. 

Reprinted  in  Hakrisse,  Jean  et  Sibastien  Cabot,  p  318,  and  in 
his  Cabot,  p.  3S7.  Translated  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar, 
(  Vtnict)  i.  no.  453. 

Rymrr. 

Foedera,  Conventiones,  Literse,  Et  Cujusciinque 
Generis  acta  publica,  inter  reges  angliie,  Et  Alios 
quosvis  imperatores. .  •  .ab  Anno  iioi,  ad  nostra 
usque  Tempera,  Habita  aut  Traclata ;  Ex  Autogra- 
phis, . . . .  Accurante  Thoma  Rvmer,  Editio  secunda 
studio  Georgii  Holmes. — Londini,  Tonson,  1727- 
1735-     H. 

20  vols,     folio, 

Mr.  Hardy  in  1869.1S73-1S85,  published  an  English  syllabus  of 
this  monumental  work,  in  three  volumes,  including  an  exhaustive 
index. 

Contains  the  letters  patent  of  1496  to  the  Cabots,  v.  pt.  iv.  S9. 

RUYSCH. 

In  hoc  opere  haec  conti-nentvr  Geographi;e  CI.  Pto- 
lemtci. . .  .Nona  orbis  descriptio  ac  noua  Oceani  naui- 
gatio  qua  Lisbona  ad  Indicu  peruenitur  pelagus  Marco 
Beneuentano  monacho  citle-stino  itdita,  Noua  uni- 
nerhalior  Orbis  cogniti  tabula  loa.  Ru^ysch  Ger- 
mano  elaborata — MDviii.  Rome. 

210II   34  double  page  maps,  large  folio. 

Seethe  last  map,  measuring  31  1-4  x  16  inches;  •' vni-versalior 
cogniti  orbis  tabvla,  ex  recen-tibvs  confecta  observationi-bvs." 

"There  is  good  reason  to  believe  that  Cabot's  charts  were  used 
for  the  regions  of  the  northeast,  (/"  e.  Asia  and  America  blended), 
by  Ruysch,  who  produced  the  earliest  engraved  map,  showing  tiie 
new  discoveries,  which  appeared  in  the  Ptolemy  of  1508."— Win- 
sor.  Controversies,  13. 

Stevens,  Hist.  Geo^.  Notes,.  2,2,  quotes  contempoiary  state- 
ments and  the  arguments  showing  that  Ruysch  may  very  probably 
have  accompanied  Cabot  on  one  of  his  voyages.  See  also  Win- 
SOR,  America,  iii.  9." 

Hakkisse,  Z>/'.ffvnv;'i', 449-453,  discusses  the  probable  origin  of 
the  Newf<iundland  portion  of  this  map,  with  considerable  detail. 

This  map  has  been  reproduced  in  Winsor,  Aimrira,  iii.  9; 
Nordenskiold,  Facsimile. Atlas,  Stockholm  1S89,  pi.  xxxii; 
Provvse,  Nezt-'foiindlanJ,  14,  (much  reduced)  ;  Humboldt,  Exomen, 
Y,  and   in    his  essay  on  the   earliest  map  appended  to   Ghillany's 


37 


1    I 


I      I 


I   • 


1 1',  I. 


■ihi 


!'-  Ill 


RuYSCH,  continued. 

Martin  Behaim;  Ilarrisse,  Discox'ery,i^ti\;  Stevens,  Hint.  Geog-. 
Notes,  pi.  2,  (cf.  Histor.  Mag.,  August,  1S69,  p,  107);  Santarem, 
Atlas,  t^;  Lelewel,  Moyen  Age,  planche  xliv,  (reduced  two.fifths) ; 
Kohl,  Discortry,  156,  (section);  Catalogue,  John  Carter  Brown 
Library,  i  p  39;  Varnhagen,  Novas  Estudas,  Vienna,  1874; 
Huge,' Zeita/ttrs  der  Entdeckung:  Weise,  Discoveries;  Daly, 
Early  Hist.  Cartography  (much  reduced) ;  H.  H.  Bancroft,  Cen- 
tral America,  i.  126,  (a  sketch,  loo  small  to  be  of  value). 

Santarem,  Manuel  Francisco  de  Barros  e  Sousa. 

Atlas,  compose  de  mappemondes,  de  porto  lans  et 
de  cartes  hjdrographiques  et  historiques  depuis  le  vie 
jusqu'au  xviie  siecle,  pour  la  plupart  in^dites,  recueil- 
lies  et  gravies  sous  la  direction  du  vicomte  de  Santa- 
rem. Public  sous  les  auspices  du  gouvernement  por- 
tugais. — Paris,  1842-53.     H. 

38  plates,  imperial  folic. 

There  is  a  careful  collation  of  this  work,  which  contains  the  more 
important  maps  for  tracing  the  cartograpiiical  history  of  the  Cabot 
discoveries,  in  Sabin,  Dictionary  of  American  Books, x\\ii.  dSS-dO?, 
New  York,  1SS9. 


Sanuto,  Livius 

Geografiadi  M.  Livio  Sanvto  distinta  in  xii  libri. — 
In  Vinegia,  Zenaro,  1588. 

11.  23-f-:46,  12  maps,    folio. 

Published  long  after  the  author's  death,  which  probably  occurred 
soon  after  1551. 

The  important  reference  to  Cabot  occurs  in  Lib.  i,  fo,  2.  Trans- 
lated by  Hakkisse,  Cabot,  289-290. 

Sanuto  derived  his  information,  some  time  between  154S  and 
1551,  indirectly  from  Cabot,  who  may  have  sent  him  a  map  drawn 
by  himself,  to  which  Sanuto  makes  frequent  references. 

There  is  also.  Prima  parte,  lib.  ii,  fol.  17,  a  brief  account  of  Ca. 
bot's  vovage,  based  on  the  account  in  the  preface  to  Ramusio'8 
third  volume. 


liii  i 


ill 


Sanuto,  Marino. 


I    :    : 


I  diarii  di  Marino  Sanuto  publicalo  per  cura  di  F. 
Stefani. — V^enezia,  i879(-i895.)     H. 

44  vols,  folio. 

Cover  the  years  1496-1527.  It  is  expected  that  14  more  volumes 
will  complete  the  work  to  30  September,  1538. 

See  Ragguali  siille  vita  under  Brown,  Rawdon;  and  note 
under  Pasqualiuo. 


38 


Stevens,  Hisst.  Geo^. 
9,  p.  107);  Santarem, 

(reduced  two.fifths) ; 
John  Carter  Brozvn 
udas,  Vienna,  1874; 
,  Discorerit's;  Daly, 
H.  H.  Bancroft,  Cen- 
5e  of  value). 


3ARROS  E  SOUSA. 

de  poito  lans  et 
[ues  depuis  le  vie 
in^dites,  leciieil- 
icomte  de  Santa- 
uveniement  por- 


ch contains  the  more 
history  of  the  Cabot 
Books,  xviii.  488-497, 


ta  in  xii    libii. — 

:h  probably  occurred 

^ib.  I,  fo.  2.  Trans- 

:  between    1548  and 

nt  him  a  map  drawn 

ferences. 

Trief  account  of  Ca- 

eface  to   Ramusio'g 


per  cura  di  F. 

lat  14  more  volumes 
Iawdon;  and   note 


^ 


4 


Stow. 

The  Chronicles  of  England,  from  Brute  v:,to  this 
present  yeare  of  Christ  15S0  collected  by  lohn  Stowe 
citizen  of  London. — London,  Ralphe  Newberie. 

4to. 

The  references  to  Cabot  are  on  S72,  S75,  1057,  (ed.  1580 ]> ;  or,  the 
important  passage,  S04,  ed.  1605;  477,  ed.  ibji,  with  misprinted 
date  14S9  for  1498. 

These  references  do  not  appear  in  the  Sitifii/iaries  published  by 
Stow  between  1^61  and  1580. 

See  the  discussion  of  Stow's  statements  regarding  Cabot,  in 
Harrisse,   Cal'oi,  19-36. 

Strype. 

Ecclesiastical  Memorials  Relating  chiefly  to  Relig- 
ion, and  the  Reformation  of  it,  under  King  Henry  viii. 
King  Henry  vi,  and  Q^ieen  Mary  the  First.  With 
Original  Papers,  Records,  Sic.  By  John  Strype. — 
London,  1721.     H. 

3  volumes,    folio. 

See  II.  190,  for  the  dispatch  of  Thomas  Che3'ne  and  Philip  Hoby, 
and  II.  402.  See  note  under  Cabot,  "  references  to  second  so- 
journ in  Kngland,"  Hopper, 

Taisner. 

See  English  version  under  Eurn,  circa  1575. 

The  VET. 

Le  grand  Insulaire  et  Pilotage  d'Andr^  Theuet  An- 
goumoisin  Cosmographe  de  Roy. 

Manuscript,  written  before  1558.  In  Paris,  Bibliotheque  Nation- 
ale,  {Fonds  Fran^ais  no.  15,  245,  vol.  I,fo,T4j.) 

The  passage  referring  to  Sebastian  "  Habate"  is  printed  in  Har- 
risse, Jean  et  Sebastien  Cabot,  343. 

Les  singvl.iri-tez  de  la  Fran-ce  antarctiqve  av-tre- 

ment  nomm^e  Amerique  :  &  de  plusieurs  Terres  &  Isles 

de-couuertes  de  nostre  temps.     Par  F.  Andre  Theuet, 

natif  d'Angoulesme. — Paris,  1558. 

11  8+16S.    small  4to. 

Reprinted  the  same  year  at  Antwerp.    A  new  edition,  with  notes 
by  Paul  Gaft'arel,  was  "printed  in  Paris  in  1S7S. 
Translated  into  English,  as  follows  : 

The  newfound  vvorlde,  or  Antarctike. .  .by  Andrevve 
Thevet.  And  now  newly  translated  into  Englisiie.  By 
Thomas  Hacket. — London.   (Colophon,  1568.) 

11  84-140.     small  4to. 


.^9 


1 


!      I 


! 


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XUl 


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'1  .;ii 


Ml     ! 


Thevet,  continued. 

The  passage  concerning  '*  Babate,"  cap.  Ixxiv,  (reverse  of  tlie 
fol.  14S,  155S  Paris  edition,  or  fol.  122,  English  edition^  is  a  mere 
perversion  of  that  in  Gomara,  while  it  is  not  at  all  likely  that  he 
nad  any  authority  for  his  whollv  unauthorized  additional  state- 
ment regarding  the  three  hundred  men  who  were  put  ashore  and 
perished  in  the  cold.  But  Thevet's  statement  has  entered  into 
sober  history,  and  has  been  quoted  and  requoted." — Deane  in 
Winsor,  America,  iii.  32. 


d'Andre  Thevet  cos- 


La  cosmogra-phie  vniverselle 
mo-graphe  dv  toy. — Paris,  1575. 

3  vols.  11.  (48)4-1025.     4  maps,  folio. 

See  livre  xxiii.  cap.  vii,  fo  1022,  for  the  reference  to  the  Cabot  ex- 
pedition turned  back  from  the  northwest  passage  on  account  of  the 
cold. 

Thorne. 

This  is  the  forme  of  a  Mappe  sent  1527.  from  Siuill 
in  Spayne  by  maister  Robert  Thorne  marchaunt,  to 
Doctor  Ley  Embassadour  for  King  Henry  the  8.  to 
Charles  the  Emperour. 

Woodcut  map,  measuring  17x8  7-S  inches,  with  9  lines  of  printed 
text  below. 

Issued  with  IIaklttyt,  Dtrers    Voyages,  1582- 

Against  the  Labrador  coast  is  the  fegend  :  ••  Terra  hec  ab  Ang- 
lis  primu  fuit  inuenta." 

The  American  portion  is  reproduced  in  Winsor,  America, 
iii.  17. 

Vannes. 

[Dispatch  from  Rev.  Peter  Vannes,  the  English 
Ambassador  at  Venice,  12  September  155 1. 

Printed  bv  Turnbull,  Calendar,  Foreiifn,  Edw.  vi.  (London, 
1861)   171;    Hardy,    Report   on  Documents   in    Venice,    (London, 

1866)  S. 

Varxiia  j.i:n,  Adolfo  de. 

Historia  Geral  do  Brazil,  isto  e  do  descobrimento, 
colonesac^o,  legislacao.. .  .Por  un  natural  de  Sorocaba. 

—  (Madrid)  1854. 

2  vols.      Square  Svo. 

A  second  edition,  with  the  imprint  Rio  de  Janeiro,  was  printed 
at  Vienna. 

See  tlie  Considerations  siir  Pfiistoire  dii  Br^si/,  under  d'Ave- 
ZAC,  below. 

The  letter  of  Dr.  Simao  Affonso,  dated  a  August,  1530,  in  which 
he  describes  Cabot's  return  to  Seville  from  his  voyage  to  La  Plata, 
is  in  I.  43g. 

This  passage  is  reprinted  in  Harrisse,  Cal'ot,  42S,  translated  on 
p.  250- 

40 


,l'f.! 


xiv,  (reverse  of  the 
edition \  is  a  mere 
It  all  likely  that  he 
ed  additional  state- 
ere  put  ashore  and 
nt  has  entered  into 
iquoted."— Deane  in 

die   Thevet  cos- 


ence  to  the  Cabot  ex- 
ige  on  account  of  the 


1527.  from  Siuill 
e  marchaunt,  to 
Henrj  the  8.  to 

'ith  9  lines  of  printed 

S2. 

'•  Terra  hec  ab  Ang- 

Winsor,  America, 


es,   the   English 

Edru.  Tt.  (London, 
(    Venice,    (London, 


descobrimento, 
lal  de  Sorocaba. 


aneiro,  was  printed 

r^si'/,  under  d'Ave- 

pist,  1530,  in  which 
voyage  to  La  Plata, 

,  42S,  translated  on 


Vaughan,  William. 
See  full  title  to  Golden  Fleece,  under  Mason. 

Venice. 

[Letters  of  Naturalization,  granted  to  Giovanni 
Caboto  by  the  Senate  of  Venice,  28  March  1476. 

The  text  of  these  letters  was  printed  in  part  by  BuLLO,  \'erci 
Patrin,  59-60;  and  in  full  by  IIakrisse,  Jean  et  Sibastien  Cabot, 
300-J12. 

Translated  into  English  by  Harrisse,  Cabot,  3S7-389. 

"The  preamble  makes  known  to  us  under  what  conditions  John 
Cabot  was  made  a  Venetian  citizen." 

For  the  order  of  the  Senate  to  record  these  letters,  see  note  under 

ROMANIN. 

[The  Council  of  Ten  :  Dispatch  to  Gasparo  Conta- 
rini,  dated  27  September  1522. 

Original  copy  in  the  State  Archives,  Venice,  {Cafi  del  Cons/'^r, 
lio  dei  Tn.     Lettere  sottoscritte,  Fi'lza  N.  5,1522.) 

Printed  in  JJullo,  Vera  Patria,  61-62. 

Translated  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar  (  Venire)  iii.  no.  557. 
Another  translation  is  in  Makkham,  Journah,  217-21S. 

Informing  the  Venetian  agent  at  Madrid  of  Cabot's  proposal  to 
enter  the  service  of  Venice.  It  is  accompanied  by  a  memorandum 
of  the  reward  given  to  Cabot's  secret  agent. 

[The  Council  of  Ten:  Dispatch  to  Gasparo  Conta- 
rini,  dated  28  April  1523. 

Origina'  copy  in  the  Marciana  Library  iCl.  vii.  Cod.  mix. 
Cart.  2Sq.) 

Printed  in  BuLt.o,   Vera  Potria,  67. 

Translated  into  English  by  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar  (  Ven- 
ice) iii.  no.  669,  and  Makkham,  Journals,  224. 

[The  Council  of  Ten  :  Dis-^atch  to  Giacomo  Soranzo, 
the  Venetian  Ambassador  in  England,  dated  12  Sep- 
tember 1 55 1. 

The  original  copy  is  in  Venice  ( Congij{lio  dei  Died,  Parti 
Secrete,  Filxa,  N,  S,  155 1 -4.) 

Printed  in  Bullo,   Vera  Patria,  70. 

An  English  translation  is  in  Rawdon  Brown,  Calendar  (  Ven- 
ice) V.  no.  711,  p.  364. 

WlLLES. 

The  History  of  Trauayle  in  the  West  and  East 
Indies. ..  .Gathered  in  parte,  and  done  into  Englyshe 
by  Richarde  Eden.  Newly  set  in  order,  augmented, 
and  finished  by  Ricliarde  VVilles. —  London,  Richarde 
Ii'gge-  1577- 

11.  9+466-1-6.     small  4to. 

See  fol.  232-233  for  references  to  a  Cabot  map  at  the  Earl  of  Bed- 
ford's place  at  Cheynies. 

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ZiEGLER,  Jacobus. 

Q\'ae  intvs  con  tinentvr.  ..Schondia,  tradita  ab 
aucloribus,  qui  in  eius  o-peris  prologo  memorantur 
.... — Argentorali  apud  Petrum  Opilionem.     153-. 

11.  cxii-f-  S  maps,    folio. 

Reprinted  in  1536. 

Scnnndia,  in  this  treatise  on  the  newly  discovered  and  less 
known  portions  of  the  world,  is  the  name  applied  to  the  nortiiern 
regions. 

See  note  under  Martyr,  whose  narrative  is  copied  on  the  re- 
verse of  fol.  xcii.  Ziegler  added  some  curious  inferences  and  com- 
ments, in  regard  to  the  northern  regions.  See  also  Gdun,  Decades, 
fol,  26S. 


B.     Cabotiana. 

Books  and  lesser  writings  which  relate  to  John  and  Sebastian 
Cabot,  or  to  the  controversies  which  are  associated  with  their 
name. 

The  more  important  bibliographical  material  is  mentioned  in  the 
notes  below  under  Biddlb,  Bourinot,  Bullo,  Coote,  Deane, 
Desimoni,  Harkisse,  Winsor. 

A  short  list  of  titles  on  the  Cabots  appeared  in  the  Monthly  Ref- 
erence Lists  of  the  Providence  Public  Library,  edited  by  William 
E.  Foster,  August  1SS4,  iv.  26-27. 

Anspach. 

A  iiistory  of  the  Island  of  Newfoundland  :  by  the 
Rev.  Lewis  Amadeus  Anspach. — London,  1819.    H. 

pp.  512.  2  maps.  Svo. 

Chapter  II,  John  and  Sebastian  Cabot,    pp.  23-34. 

Appletox,  John. 

The  Portrait  of  Sebastian    Cabot  belonging   to  the 

Massachusetts  Historical  Society. 

In  the  Society's  Proceedings,  January  1S65,  (Boston  1S66,)  viii. 
91.96.     (24S.12.S.) 
See  note  under  Cabot,  Portrait. 

ASHER. 

Henry  Hudson  the  navigator.  The  original  docu- 
ments in  which  his  career  is  recorded  collected,  with 
an  introduction,  by  G.  M.  Asher. — ^^London,  Hakluyt 
Society,  i860. 

pp.  ccxviii-f-292,    2  maps.  Svo. 

Sketch  of  the  Cabot  voyages,  Ixii-Ixxx. 

4» 


■» 


9, 


londia,  tradita  ab- 
ologo  memorantur 
>iHonein.     1532. 


y  discovered  and  less 
ipplied  to  the  northern 

ve  is  copied  on  the  re- 
)us  inferences  and  com- 
ee  also  Ediln,  DicaJes, 


;  to  John  and  Sebastian 
:  associated   with   their 

rial  is  mentioned  in  the 

JULLO,  COOTE,  DeANE, 

ed  in  the  Mouthlv  Ri'f- 
ary,  edited  by  William 


^foundland  :  by  the 
ondon,  1819.  'H. 

'P.  23-34- 


belonging  to  the 
65,  (Boston  1S66,)  viii. 


7he  original  docu- 
ied  collected,  with 
-London,  Hakluyt 


Avezac-Macaya,  Marie  Arm  and  Pascal  d'. 

Les  navigations  Terre-Neuviennes  de  Jean  et  S6bas- 
tien  Cabot.  Lettre  au  Reverend  Leonard  Woods  par 
M.  d'Avezac. — Paris,  1869.     H. 

pp.  20.  Svo. 

"  Lue  en  communication  \  la  stance  trimestrielle  des  cinq  acade- 
mies  de  I'inslitut  de  France  le  6  octobre,  1S69." 

Also  printed  in  the  Bulletin  df  la  SorUU  de  Geographic,  (1S69) 
ser.  xviii.  300-316.     Read  before  this  Society,  S  June  1S69. 

This  letter  was  translated  by  Dr.  Woods,  and  printed  as  an  ap- 
pendix to  Kohl,  Discovery ,  (Maine  Historical  Socy.  Collections, 
2  ser.  I.  502-514.)  2+S.V.7 

The  arguments  advanced  in  this  letter  were  answered  by  Major 
in  his  True  Date, 

Considerations  gdographiqiies  stir  I'liistoire  du  Br^- 
sil,  exarnen  critique  d'une  noiivelle  histoire  par  M. 
Fran^ois-Adolphe  de  Varnhagen,  par  ^L  d'Avezac. 

In  the  Bulletin  </<•  la  Sociit^  dc  Gioffrapbie,  Paris,  Aout  et  Sep- 
tembre,  1S57,  '''^'  S9-36S.     2  maps.  Svo.     B.  P.  L. 

See  note  K.  on  Sebiistian  Cabot,  266-278. 

See  also  M.  d'Avezac's  study  of  "  Les  Mesures  itineraires  em- 
ployees par  les  marins  espa^nols  et  portugais  des  xv  et  xvi  sie- 
cles,"  in  the  Bulletin  dc  la  Sociiti  de  Geographie,  Septembre  et 
Octobre  1S56,  xvi.  258-313. 

In  the  Bulletin  of  ihe  same  society,  Paris,  May  1S69,  xvii.  406-7, 
M.  d'Avezac  reported  a  photographic  copy  of  a  Venetian  portrait 
of  "Jean  Cabot  et  de  son  fils  Sebastien  Cabot,  age  d'une  vingtaine 
d'annees  d'apres  Ic  tableau  de  Grizzellini,  appartenant  ^  la  gulerie 
du  palais  ducal." 

M.  d'Avezac  was  the  writer  of  an  iniportantreviewof  Nicholls, 
Cabot,  in  the  Revue  Critique  d'liistoire  et  de  littirature,  Paris,  23 
April  1S70,  v,  264-269. 

Bacon. 

The  Historie  of  the  raigne  of  King  Henry  the  Sev- 
enth, written  by  the  right  honorable  Francis  Lord 
Verulam,  viscount  St.  Albans — London,  Stansby, 
1622. 

pp.  2<jS.    small  4to. 

Reprinted  in  the  various  editions  of  Lord  Bacon's  works.  The 
more  recent  editions  usually  have  foot-notv;s,  which  in  several  cases 
correct  the  reference  to  Cabot  in  the  xext.  022,8.11 

The  Cabot  voyage  is  mentioned  towards  the  end  of  the  narra- 
tive of  14  Henry  vii.  It  follows  the  account  in  Stow  and  in  the 
Chronicon,  mentioned  among  the  Sources  above. 

Bancroft. 

A  history  of  the  United  States  i-om  the  discovery  of 

the  American  continent  to  the  present  time.  By  George 

Bancroft. — Bostor,  1834.  (20850.1) 

The  eight  succeeding-  volumes  appeared  between  1S37  'i"<i  "866. 
All  have  been  repeatedly  reprinted,  with   very   considerable  varia- 


43 


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1    1 1 


IM- 


I   ri:  :  i, 


F\ 


I'  ' 


'  I'  ' 


Bancroft,  conttmied. 

tions.  The  important  editions  are  the  "Centennial,"  issued  in 
I S76,  and  "the  Author's  latest  revision,"  New  York,  Appleton, 
iSSi. 

The  account  of  the  Cabot  voyages  is  in  volume  I,  pp.  S-15  (1S34 
edition)  Q-12  (1SS3  ed.) 

The  more  important  portions  of  tins  account  are'  reprinted  in 
learned,  History  for  Ready  Reference,  1.  51. 

Mr.  Bancroft  utilized  this  narrative,  adding  some  material  from 
his  manuscript  collections,  for  a  careful  article  in  Appleton's  New 
Ameri'an  Cyclopedia,  "biew  York,  1859,  iv.  1S5-187,  reprinted  with- 
out change  in  the  1S73  edition,  iii.  529-531.  Its  chief  value  is  as  a 
tf.st  of  what  was  known  about  the  Cabots  in  1859. 

Barrett. 

The    history  and  antiquities  of    Bristol ;   compiled 

from  Original  Records  and  authentic  manuscripts.    In 

public  Offices  or  private  Hands.     Bv  William  Barrett. 

— Bristol,  1789.     H. 

pp.  704.  30  mips  and  plates.  4to. 
For  Cabot,  sec  171-174. 

Barrow. 

A  chronological  history  of  voyages  into  the  Arctic 
regions;  undertaken  chiefly  for  the  purpose  of  discov- 
ering a  north-east,  north-west,  or  polar  passage  be- 
tween the  Atlantic  and  Pacific  :  from  the  earliest  pe- 
riods of  Scandinavian  navigation,  by  John  Barrow.— 
London,  Murray,  1818, 

PP-  379+48.  map.  8vo. 

"John  and  Sebastian  Cabota,  1496,"  32-37. 

"  Invaluable,  as  it  not  only  embodies  in  a  cheap  and  convenient 
form  all  the  mistakes  of  its  predecessors,  but  generally  supplies  a 
good  deal  of  curious  original  error." — Biddle,  Cabot,  70,  cited  in 
Dawson,  Voyaires,  loi. 

Beaudoin. 
Jean  Cabot,  par  I'abb^  J.  D.  Beaudoin. 

In  Le  Canada  Fran^ais,  (Quebec,  University  of  Laval),  Octo- 
ber, 1S89. 

"A  careful  review  ot  earlier  arguments  on  the  Cabot  landfall, 
with  cogent  reasons  for  accepting  Cape  Breton." 

Bellemo. 
Giovanni  Caboto  note  critiche  per  Vicenzo  Bellemo 

In  Raccolta  di  doctintenti  e.  sttidi  puhhlicati  dalla  R.  cammis- 
sione  Columbiana  pel  quarto  centenario  dalla  scoperta  dell*  Ame- 
rica.— Roma,  auspice  il  ministere  della  pubblica  istruzione,  1S94 
Parte  v,  vol.  ii.  151-21S. 

Extracts  from  tlie  important  documents  are  on  215-21S. 

44 


!li' 


"Centennial,"   issued  in 
"  New  York,  Appieton, 

1  volume  I,  pp.  S.15   (1S34 

account  are'  reprinted  in 

S'. 

ding  some  material   from 

irticle  in  Appleton's  New 

iv.  1S5.1S7,  reprinted  with - 

.     lis  chief  value  is  as  a 

in  1859, 


f    Bristol;   compiled 

itic  manuscripts.    In 

Bj  William  Barrett. 


iges  into  the  Arctic 
t  purpose  of  discov- 
r  polar  passage  be- 
om  the  earliest  pe- 
bj  John  Barrow. — 


57- 
a  cheap  and  convenient 
but  generally  supplies  a 
iddle,  Cahot^  70,  cited  in 


udoin. 

iversity  of  Laval),  Octo- 

ts  on  the  Cabot  landfall, 
reton." 


er  Vicenzo  Bellemo 

licati  dalla  R.  camtnis. 
\alla  scoferta  delP  Ame- 
ubblica  istruzione,  1S94 

are  on  215-21S. 


Bethuxe,  Charles  Ramsay  Dkinkwater. 

See  note  under  Galvano,  above,  for  vice  admiral  Bethune's  edi- 
tion of  the  Tratiiiio,  publislied  by  the  Hukhiyi  Socii-ty  in  iS6i. 


Beynen. 

The  three  voyages  of  William  Barents  to  the  arctic 
regions  (1594,  1595.  and  1596),  bv  Genit  de  Veer, 
first  edition  edited  by  Charles  T.  Beke,  1853.  Second 
Edition,  with  an  Introduction,  bv  Lieutenant  Koole- 
mans  Beynen. — London,  Hakluyt  Society,  1S76. 

l^p.  clxxiv-l-iSg.  2  miips.  16  plates.  Svo. 

See  p.  Ixiv  for  C;>bot's  services  in  fitting  out  the  Willougliijy 
expedition. 

Bidule. 

A  memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot;  with  a  review  of  the 
history  of  Maritime  discovery.  Illustrated  by  docu- 
ments from  the  rolls,  now  first  published. — Philadel- 
phia, Carey  and  Lea,   1831.  (3074.16) 

pp.  xiii+327.  Svo. 

Reissued  in  London  the  same  year. 

A  second  London  edition,  in  1S32,  differs  from  the  preceding 
ones,  in  having  leaf  pp.  77-7S  cancelled,  in  order  to  insert  extracts 
from  "A  New  intekludh  and  a  mery  of  the  nature  of  the  iiij.  ele- 
ments."    See  under  Soukces,  above. 

Issued  anonymously,  although  the  authorship,  by  Richard  Bid- 
die  of  Philadelphia,  seems  to  have  been  understood  from  the  first, 
except  by  Urunet,  Maiiui'l  dii  Libraire,  \.  1446,  who  ascribes  ''  cet 
ouvrat;e  int^ressant"  to  M.  D.-B.  Warden. 

'*  It  is  a  work  of  great  value  for  its  authorities,  and  displays 
much  critical  talent;  and  though  composed  with  little  system  and 
with  a  strong  bias  in  favor  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  it  may  be  regarded 
as  the  best  review  of  the  histf)ry  of  maritime  discovery  relating  to 
the  period  of  which  it  treats,  that  had  appeared.'' — Deane  in 
Winsor,  America,  iii.  43. 

Mr.  Riddle's  chief  service  was  in  clearly  distinguishing,  for  tho 
first  time  since  Sebastian  Cabot  confused  them,  the  details  of  the 
two  voyages  of  1497  and  149S. 

The  yfi'tnoir  was  reviewed  by  George  S.  Hillard  in  the  North 
American  Reviezv,  Boston,  April  1S32,  xxxiv.  405-42S.     {i537'i-34) 

A  summary  of  this  Memoir  is  in  the  Penny  Cyclopedia  of 
the  Society  for  the  diffusion  of  useful  knowledge',  London,  (?iS46) 
vi.  94-95,  (A.)  and  in  the  Penny  Magazine  of  the  same  society,, 
for  27  February  1S36,  v.  79-80.      "  _      (052  4.5.) 

An  account  of  Cabot,  largely  based  upon  Biddle,  is  in  Miniscal- 
chi  Erizzo,  De scoperte antuhe,  Venezia,  1S55. 

Mr,  Biddle's  severe  strictures  on  Hakluyt  were  the  immediate 
cause  of  Tytler's  Jlistorical  Vitw. 


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ijl       in| 


'  (I 


1     m1 


BOURINOT. 

Cape  Hreton  and  its  Memorials  of  the  French  R6- 
gime.     Hy  J.  G.  Bourinot. 

Presented  to  tlie  Roy:iI  Society  of  Canada,  27  May  iScn.  Trans- 
actions, ix.  Sec.  ii.  i7i-?|3  (Montreal,  1S92.)     A. 

Also  issued  separately. — Montreal,  iSi>2.  pp.  170.  4to. 

Sketcli  ot  the  Cabot  discoveries,  pp.  176-1S0;  with  some  useful 
hihliographical  and  other  notes,  295-298. 

The  Story  of  Canada  by  J.  G.  Bourinot. — New  York, 
Piitnams,   1896.  2095.17 

pp.  xx+/)3.  map.  Svo.     In  the  ••  Story  of  the  Nations  "  series. 
"The  D  iwn  of  discovery  in  Canada,  1497-1525,"  pp.  19-2S. 

Bourne,  Henry  Richard  Fox. 


English  Seamen  under  the    Tudors. 


bv  H.  R.  Fo.K 
Bourne — London,  Bentley,  186S.     B.  P.  L. 

2  vols.  Svo. 

Chapter  ii.    "  The  voyages  of  the  Cabots'  "  I.  24-45. 
Mr.   Bourne   readily  accepts  whatever  adds  to  the  glory  of  his 
heroes. 

English  Merchants,  memoirs  in  illustration  of  the 
progress  of   British    commerce  by  H.  R.  Fox  Bourne. 

— London,  Chatto,  1SS6.  (37783-0 

pp.492.    Svo. 

See  chapter  v,  on  Henry  the  Seventh's  furtherance  of  trade  and 
of  the  Company  nf  Merchants  Adventurers.  71-yS,  for  an  account  of 
the  connection  of  the  Cabots  with  British  commerce  and  the  enter- 
prises of  Bristol. 

Brevoort. 

John  Cabot's  Voyages  of  1497.  By  J.  Carson  Bre- 
voort. 

In  the  Historical  A/ai>azi/ii',  Morrisania,  N.  Y.,  March,  1S6S,  2d 
Ser.  iii.  (xiii).  129-135.  "^  (250.1.13) 

Mr.  Brevoort,  accepting  a  voyage  of  300  leagues  along'  the  coast, 
accounts  for  this  by  arguing  that  Cabot  made  the  pvriplus  of  the 
Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence,  passing  out  at  the  Straits  of  Belle  Isle,  and 
thence  hoine. 

Notes  on  Giovanni  da  Verrazano  and  on  a  planis- 
phere of  1529,  illustrating  his  American  voyage  in  1524, 
with  a  reduced  copy  of  the  map,  by  James  Carson  Bre- 
voort. 

In  the  Journal  of  the  American  Geographical  Society  of  New 
York,  1S74,   iv.  144-297.     Read  November  2S,  1S71. 
See  section  vi,  on  Cabot,  213-214. 

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Brown. 


of  the   French   R6- 

da,  2-  May  iSqi.     Trans- 

>^.)     A. 

2.  pp.  170.  4to. 

6-iSo;   with   some  useful 

oiirinot. — New  York, 
2095.17 
of  the  Nations  "  series. 
197-1525."  PP-  19-28. 


dors,   bv   H.  R.  Fox 
B.  P.  L. 

s'  ••  I.  24.45. 

adds  to  the  glory  of  his 

I  illustration  of  the 
^  H.  R.  Fox  Bourne. 

(37783-1) 

furtherance  of  trade  and 
rs.  71-yS,  for  an  account  of 
commerce  and  the  enter- 


Bj  J.  Carson  Bre- 

ia,  N.  Y.,  March,  1S6S,  2d 

,  ,         (250.1.13) 

)  leagues  along  the  coast, 
nade  the  pcriplus  of  the 
Straits  of  Belle  Isle,  and 

no  and  on  a  planjs- 
rican  vojage  in  15J4, 
y  James  Carson  Bre- 

raphical  Society  of  New 

28,  1S71. 


A  history  of  the  Island  of  Cape   Breton,  with   souiC 

account  of  the  discovery  and   settlement   of  Canada, 

Nova  Scotia,  and   Newfoundland,  by  Richard   Brown. 

—  London,  1S69.     II. 

pi>.  ifx).    map.    Svo. 

"  The  Cabot  voyages,"  8-16. 

Bryant  and  Gay. 

A  popular  history  of  the  United  States,  by  William 
CuUen  Bryant  and  Sydney  Howard  Gay. —  New  York, 
Scribner, '1S76.  '        '  (2085.18.  i) 

4  volumes,     large  Svo. 

"  Voyages  of  the  Cabots,"  129.14S. 

BULLO. 

For  the  W'rn  Pii/n'(i,in  which  Sig.  lUillo  argues  for  Chioggia 
as  the  l)irthplace  of  John  Cabot,  see  above  under  Sources. 

Campbell. 

Navigantium  atque  Itinerantium  Bibliotheca;  or  a 
Complete  Collection  of  Voyages  and  Travels  ;  consist- 
ing of  above  Six  Hundred  of  the  inost  Authentic 
Writers;  beginning  with  Hakluit  —  Now  carefully  re- 
vised, with  large  additions. —  London,  1743-48. 

,     ,,.  (^70.34) 

2  vols,  tolio. 

First   collected    and   arranged    by  John   Harris  in  1705.      This 
edition  was  edited  by  Dr.  John  Campbell,  and  was  reprinted  in  i7('4  . 
The  account  of  Cabot's  voyage  is  in  ii.  igo. 

Lives  of  the  British  Admirals:  containing  an  accur- 
ate naval  history  frotri  the  earliest  periods,  by  Dr. 
John  Campbell.  The  naval  history  continued  to  the 
year  1779,  by  Dr.  Burkenhout.  A  new  edition,  revised, 
corrected,  and  the  Historical  Part  further  continued  to 
the  year  1780,  by  the  late  Henry  Redhead  Yorke,  Esq. 
And  further  continued  to  the  last  expedition  against 
Algiers  in  1816,  by  William  Stevenson.  —  London, 
1S17.     A. 

5  vols.  Svo. 

"  Historical  Memoirs  of  Sir  John  Cabot,"  I.  312-316.  Isebastian 
Cabot,  1.  373-3S7. 

Until  the  appearance  of  Riddle,  Mnnoir,  in  1S31,  this  was  prob 
ably  the  standard  secondary  authority  on  the  Cabots. 


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CuANNiNd,  Edward. 
See  American  IIis>toky  Leaflet,  under  Sourcbs,  above. 

Christy. 

The  voyages  of  Captain  Luke  Foxe  of  Hull,  and 
Captain  Thomas  James  of  Bristol,  in  search  of  a 
north-west  passage,  in  1631-3J;  with  narratives  of  the 
earlier  nortli-west  voyages..  .Htlited  by  Miller  Christy. 
—  London,  Ilakluvt  Society,  1894. 

2  vols.  pp.  ccxx.\i-(-6Si,  ,^  iiiiips,  \  plates.    Svo. 
See  note  to  Foxe,  under  Sources,  above. 

Cheyney. 

See  the  Philobiblion  Society  Misrrfldiius  for  1S56  (li)  and  1S64 
(ix). 

CooTE,  Charles  Henry. 
Sebastian  Cabot,  1474-1557. 

In   the    Diclionurv  of  Xnlioiuil    nioifnipliy,   edited  by  Leslie 
Stephen,  (New  York,  Macniillan,  1SS6),  viii.  1^)6-171,     A.       317.1.8 
Gives  an  admirable  select  bibliojjraphy  of  the  best  authorities. 

See  Morgan.  Mr.  Coote's  connection  with  this  work,  the 
Ilakluyt  Society  volume  on  Jenkinson's  voyages  to  Russia,  was 
for  the  most  part  only  nominal. 

See  note  under  Molineai;x,  under  Sources,  above. 

Cortambert. 

Nouvelle  histoire  des  voyages  et  des  grandes  decoii- 
vertes  geographiques  dans  tons  les  temps  et  dans  ton* 
les  pays  par  Riciiard  Cortambert. — L'Amerique.  Le 
pole  nord. — Paris,  (n.d.  1883-1884.)     H. 

pp.  80S.     folio. 

For  an  interesting  account  of  the  Cabots,  from  a  strictly  French 
point  of  view,  see  207-217. 

CoRRY. 

History  of  Bristol,  civil  and  ecclesiastical,  by  John 
Corry.     Bristol,  1816. 

a  volumes.    Svo. 

See  i.  311-319,  for  a  narrative  of  the  Cabot  voyages,  which  has 
the  not  inconsiderable  merit  of  making  hottest  use  of  such  docu- 
mentary sources  as  were  then  available. 

Daly. 

On  the  early  history  of  cartography,  or  what  we 
know  of  maps  and  map-making,  before  the  time  of 
Mercator.     By  Charles  P.  Daly. 

Presidential  address  to  the  American  Geographical  Society^ 
printed  in  its  Journal,  New  York,  1S79,  xi.  1-40,  plates,  Svo. 

4S  » 


liJiii 


A 


nder  SouKCES,  above. 


D'AVKZAC. 
See  Avezac-Macaya,  Marie  Arniand  PascAl  d*. 


ie  Foxe  of  Hull,  and 
stol,  in  search  of  a 
,vith  narratives  of  the 
ted  by  Miller  Christy. 

4- 

s.    Svo. 

JVC. 


i/ii'ts  for  1856  (ii)  and  1864 


\irntf>hy,  edited  by  Leslie 
viii.  166-171.  A.  317. i.S 
y  of  the  best  authorities. 

tioii  with  this  work,  the 
's  voyages  to  Russia,  was 


URGES,  above. 


it  des  grandes  decoii- 
;s  temps  et  dans  ton* 
•t. — L'Anierique.  Le 
+•)     H. 

ts,  from  a  strictly  French 


:clesiastical,  by  John 


iabot  voyages*^  which   has 
hottest  use  of  such  docu- 


)graphy,  or  what  we 
;,  before  tlie  time  of 

n  Geographical    Society, 
xi.  1-40,  plates,  Svo. 


D  An"  SON. 

Tiie  voyages  of  the  Cabots  in  1497  and  1498,  with 
an  attempt  to  identify  their  landfall  and  to  identify 
their  island  of  St.  John.  By  Samuel  Edward  Dawson. 
— Montreal,  Foster  Brown,  1S94.  20S1.18 

From  the  TruHsti/ tions  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada,  (May 
a,  1S94),  ""•  S'"2,  Section  ii.  (2081. iS).  A.  Kepriiited  sepa- 
rately. 

Based  on  an  extended  examination  of  early  maps,  with  a  view 
to  provinjjf  that  Scutari  Island  olf  Cape  Hreton  headland,  is  the 
"  isia  de  S.  Juan,"  represented  as  near  the  Cabot  landfall  by  most 
XVl.  century  cartographers.    See  note  in  Xnlion,  Ix.  126. 

850.12.60 

Some  sugfi^e.-tive  hints  on  the  probable  variation  of  the  compass 
in  1407-1498,  anti  the  possible  effect  of  this  on  the  observations  re- 
porteil  by  the  Cabots,  are  j^iven  in  §  iv,  57-5S,  and  95-96.  A  useful 
summary  of  the  early  cartography  of  tlie  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence  is 
in  §  vii,  65-91. 

Argues  that  the  legend,  "  Prima  tierra  vista,"  on  the  Cabot  map, 
applies  to  the  whole  island  of  Newfoundland,  and  that  the  true 
landfall  was  the  proper  Cape  Hreton,  at  the  southeast  corner  of  the 
island.  Dawson's  view  is  in  a  measure  sustain'  l  by  a  Portuguese 
portolano,  usually  dated  from  151410  1520.  1  rowse,  AV;!;/^u/;/i/- 
/</;/(/, 30,  finds  that  the  "  liturgical  test  " — the  use  of  Saint's  names 
to  determine  course  and  progress.as  applied  to  Cosa's  coast  names, 
supposed  to  mark  Cabot's  progress,  conHicts  with  Dawson's  the- 
ory.— Winsor,  Coiitrovcrsws,  5.6. 

Deane. 

Remarks  on  Sebastian  Cabot's  Mappemonde.  By 
Charles  Deane. — Cambridge,  1867. 

pp.  8.  Svo. 

Fifty  copies  reprinted  from  Amrr.  Anti'qtian'an  Sory,  Proceed, 
ifi^s,  (20  October  1S66,)  pp.  10-14.    (040.S.6) 

These  remarks  were  also  reported  in  the  /-/I's/ori'nil  J/<ifi'trzi>ie 
for  October  1S66,  x.  353-354,  with  an  interesting  note  on  the  "  dis- 
covery "  of  historical  documents,  by  Henry  B.  Dawson.   (250.1. 10) 

Remarks  of  Mr.  Charles  Deane  on  Sebastian  Cabot's 
mappemonde. 

Before  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  24  April  1S67,  Pro. 
rffi//'«^.s',  43-50,  (Cambridge,  1867).  Accompanying  the  presenta- 
tion of  a  copy  of  the  map  to  the  society.     (040.S.7. ) 

Contains  the  earliest  suggestion  of  Cape  Breton  as  tlie  Cabot 
landfall,  drawn  from  the  map. 

Mr.  Deane's  remarks  on  presenting  the  copy  of  this  map  to  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society  are  in  its  Proceedings  fo.r  Octo- 
ber  1S82,  xix.  387.  (24S.11.4S) 

49 


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I ': 


I    I 


I 


Deane,  continued, 

Tlie  vojages  of  the  Cabots,  by  Charles  Deane. 

In  WiNSOR,  Amcricii,  Boston,  1SS4,  lii.  1-5S.     2  maps.    (208.1.3.) 
Also   issued    separately,   as   "   The    Voyagt's  of  the    Ceibots:    a 
Stiaiy. 

"  A  cautious  an  '.  thorough  examination  of  all  the  evidence,  ex- 
tended or  brief,  worthy  of  consideration,. ..  .surveyed  in  a  chrono- 
lojj-ical  way.  A  study  of  Dr.  Der.ie's  treatment  is  peculiarly  in- 
dicative  of  the  lia/.ards  to  which  historical  statements  are  sub- 
jected  during'  transmission  from  one  writer  to  anf)ther,  under  the 
influence  of  tradition,  chance  knowledge,  inference,  and  conjec- 
ture."— Winsor,  Controversies,  15. 

The  "  critical  essay  on  the  sources  of  information,"  which  sup- 
plements Mr.  Deane's  narrative,  pp  7-58,  forms  the  most  satis- 
factory starting  point  for  a  careful  study  of  any  phase  of  the  Cabot 
controversies.  Less  exhaustive  and  less  thorough  than  Harrisse, 
in  the  analysis  >r  the  actual  sources,  it  is  also  less  dogmatic  and 
less  pcditive  in  c;;4ard  to  questions  where  certainty  can  not  be  his- 
torically establiLlied. 

As  a  gu'ide  to  the  Cabot  literature  of  the  present  century,  Mr. 
Deane's  'tniarks  are  supplemented  by  Dr.  Winsor's  Cahot  Contro. 
versies,  which  brings  the  discussion  down  to  the  present  year  1897. 

A  very  brief  summary  ot  Mr.  Deane's  narrative  is  given  in  I.,ak- 
NED,  History  for  Ready  Jie/ereiiee,  i.  52. 

See  above,  under  Cabot,  Legends,  the  Remarks  of  Mr. 
Smith,  in  communicating  Mr.  Deane's  copies  of  the  Cabot  legends 
to  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  in  1891. 

See  also  Mr.  Deane's  notes  to  IIakluyt,  Western  Planting, 
•specially  pp.  222-230. 


De  Cost.\,  B'iNjAMiv  Franklin.. 

The  Nortiini'  1  in  Maine:  '^,  critical  examination  of 
views  expressed  in  connec  on  with  the  subject,  by  Dr. 
J.  G.  Kohl  in  voliuv.?  T.  of  the  new  series  of  the  Maine 
Historical  Society.  To  wliich  are  added  criticisms  on 
other  portions  of  the  work,  and  a  chapter  on  the  dis- 
covery of  Massachusetts  Bay.  By  the  Rev.  B.  F.  De 
Costa. — Albany,  Munsell,  1870. 

pp.  146,  8vo. 


Desimoni. 

Sugli  Scopritori  Genovesi  del  medio  evo  e  sul  modo 

come    essi    furouo   recentemente    giudicati  dai   Dotti 

stranieri. 

In  the  Giornale  Ligustico  (Genova,  1S74.) 
Giovanni  Caboto,  308-316. 

SO 


I,  1 1 


y  Charles  Deane. 

lii.  1-5S.     2  maps.    (208.1.3.) 
Voya^i's  of  the    drl'ots:    a 

tion  of  all  the  evidence,  ex- 

11, surveyed  in  a  chrono- 

ireiitment  is  peculiarly  in- 
toriciil  statements  are  sub- 
irriter  to  anotlier,  under  the 
Ige,    inference,  and   conjec- 


)f  information,"  which  sup- 
7-58,  forms  the  most  satis- 
[y  of  any  phase  of  the  Cabot 
ss  thorough  than  Harrisse, 
t  is  also  less  dogmatic  and 
2re  certainty  can  not  be  his- 


)f  the  present  century,  Mr. 
Or.  Winsor's  Cahot  Contro- 
)vvn  to  the  present  year  1897. 
s  narrative  is  given  in  I.,ak- 

52- 

OS,   the    Ke marks    of   Mr. 
copies  of  the  Cabot  legends 
yr,  in  1S91. 
KLUYT,  Western  Planting, 


.IN.  . 

critical  examination  of 
vith  the  subject,  by  Dr. 
lew  series  of  the  Maine 
are  added  criticisms  on 
i  a  chapter  on  the  dis- 
Bj  the  Rev.  B.  F.  De 


1  medio  evo  e  sul  modo 
te   giudicati  dai   Dotti 

1S74.) 


Desimoni,  continued. 

Intorno  a  Giovanni  Cahoto  Genovese  scopritore  del 
Labrador  e  di  altre  regioni  dell'  alta  America  setten- 
trionale,  Documenti  pubblicati  ed  illustrati  dal  socio 
Cornelio  Desimoni. 

In  Atti  della  societh  Ligure  di  storia  palrin  (Genova,  iSSi)  xv. 

1 77 •239- 

Discusses  the  identity  of  "the  unknown  guest  at  the  house  of  Fra- 
caEtor."     See  note  under  Kamusio,  above. 

The  documents  occupy  p|).  219-2^9. 

The  two  pages  of'-  l.ibri  consultati  direttamente  "  give  the  titles 
of  several  useful  Continental  studies  ot  the  Cabot  questions. 

Dextkr. 

Early  Emopean  voyages  in  Massachusetts  Bay. 
By  George  Dexter. 

In  Winsor,  Meinorial  History  of  Boston,  (Hoston,  iSSo)  I.  23-36. 
folio.  '     "  (2oS9''>.S.i) 

Gives  an  admirable  outline  of  what  is  known  about  the  Cabot  dis- 
coveries, 29-32. 

The  testimony  of   Fabyan's   Chronicle  to  Ilakluyt's 

account  of  the  Cabots.    By  George  Dexter. 

In  Aiiier.  AntiijtKirian  Socy.  Proceedings,  Nevj  .SV/-.  1.436-441. 
(Worcester,  1SS2.) 

DiONNK,  N.-E. 

A  review  of  IIakkisse,  Cabot,\\\\.\\<i  American  llistoilenl  Re- 
view, July  'S96,  I.  717-721,  is  of  some  little  value  for  its  stalementof 
the  main  problems  raised  and  solutions  proposed  by  Harrisse. 

Doyle,  John  Andrews. 

English  colonies  in  America,  Virginia,  Maryland, 
and  the  Carolinas  by    J.  A.  Doyle. — New  York,  Molt, 

1889.  '    '  "  (20S4.12.1) 

pp.  420.  large  Svo. 

Although  not  so  stated  on  the  title,  this  volume  is  virtually  the 
first  of  what  will,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  become  a  comprehensive  his- 
tory of  all  the  English  colonies  in  America. 

Chapter  iii.  20-41,  gives  an  excellent  sketch  of  the  Cabots,  al- 
thougn  written  without  a  full  appreciation  of  the  latest  develop- 
ments of  research  in  the  field. 

DoYLE,  William. 

Some  account  of  the  British  dominions  beyond  the 
Atlantic:  .  .  .  Particularly,  The  important  Q^iestion 
about  the  north-west  passage  Is  satisfactorily  dis- 
cussed:     By  William  Doyle. — London.     (N.  d.,  1770.) 

pp.  xvi-l-87.  map. 

Suggests,  p.  xi,  *'  Sebastia  "  as  a  fitting  name  for  British  Amer- 
ica— *'  a  misapplication  quite  matching  the  mishap  which  gave  the 
name  of  America  to  the  Western  hemisphere." — Winsor,  Amtrica, 
iii.  ^i. 


I  ;  M 

I  ■  M 

I  ,  !    I 

!  I  Ml 

!  i  I  Mi 

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l|  '  M 


:i  ! 


!   ,  ,ni  '1,1 


1,111 

1   ,|.'l  ! 


Erizzo,  Miniscalchi. 
See  note  under  Biddle,  above. 

Fernandez  Duro,  Cesareo. 

Review  of  a  work  on  Sebastian  Cabot,  in  La  Espofm  Modenta 
(noted  by  Prowse,  Ni'v.'fou iniUiud.,  30.)  in  which  Captain  Duro 
'*  brands  Cabot  as  a  traitor  to  Si)ain." 

FiSKE. 

The  discovery  of  America,  with  sotne  account  of 
ancient  America  and  the  Spanish  conquest  by  John 
Fiske. — Boston,  Houghton  MifHin,  1S92.         (2081.12) 

2  vols.  pj).  xxxvi-|-Si6,  xxiv-l-631.  4  maps.  Svo. 

Chapter  vii,  vol,  ii.  1-17,  gives  a  good  summary  of  what  was 
accomplislifd  by  the  Cabots. 

Short  extracts  from  Mr.  Fiske's  narrative  were  reprinted  by 
Edwin  n.  >[ead  in  Old  South  Laiflct,  no.  37  (Roston,  1S95);  sec 
note  under  Hakluyt. 

Ganong. 

The  Cartography  of  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence,  from 
Cartier  to  Champlain.     By  W.  F.  Ganong.     A. 

Presented  to  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada,  S  May  1SS9.  and 
printed  in  llieir  Trnii  sort  ions.  viii.  Sec.  II,  17-5S  (Montreal,  1S90.) 

"  Influence  of  Cartier's  Voyagi'S  on  Early  Cartog-raphy,"  ■27-43; 
furnishes  a  valuable  comparison  for  the  student  of  the  influence  of 
the  Catiot  voyages. 

On  pp.  35-37  he  discusses  the  Cabot  map,  of  which  an  outline 
sketch  is  given. 

See  also  45-49,  on  the  "  Isle  of  St.  John." 

An  earlier  paper  by  M.  Ganong,  on  Cartier,  in  the  Traiisartious 
of  the  Royal  Society  for  Ciinada,  1SS7,  v.  Sec.  II,  121-136,  has  a 
little  matter  of  interest  to  students  of  Cabot. 


•    t 


III',!'!; 


I 


Geor(;e,  William. 

Sebastian  Cabot  and  Richard  Eden. 

In  Xotrs  (Did  ^nrrirs,  27  March  1S5S,  2  Ser.  v.  263.    A.  052.13.15 
A  sugges'ion  concerning  the  evidence  of  their  relative  veracity. 

Hakluyt  Society. 

The  Hakluyt  Society  was  organized  in  1847  for  the  purpose  of 
publishing  works  relating  to  the  "  navigations,  voyages,  traffics, 
and  discoveries "  of  Europeans  during  the  period  of  colonial 
expansion.  The  current  year,  1S97,  will  bring  out  the  hundredth 
volume  of  the  society's  series  of  admirablv  edited  translations  and 
reprints.  Those  works  that  contain  references  to  the  Cabots  are 
entered  in  the  present  list  undei  Asher,  Heynkn,  Christy,  Gal* 
VANO,  Jones,  Makkham,  Morgan,  Rundall. 

52 


Ii  ,i; 


La    Kspafta  Moderna 
n   which  Captain  Duro 


1  sotne  account  of 
conquest  by  John 
1892.         (2081.12) 

.  Svo. 

suiTiniary  of  what  was 

.ive   were   reprinted   by 
•  37  (rJoston,  1S95) ;  see 


Hale,  Edward  Everett. 

Report  of  the  Council  of  the  American  Antiquarian 
Society;  21  October  1865. 

In  Proceedings  Amer.  Antiquarian  Socy,,  Cambridge,  1866. 
M-S3.  (040.S.6) 

Dr.  Hale  reviews  the  early  English  references  to  the  Cabots  and 
to  America,  quoting  a  few  of  the  documents,  on  pp.  19-31. 

Dr.  Hale  called  attention  to  the  Chkonicon,  from  which  he 
printed,  for  the  first  time,  tlie  reference  to  Cabot,  in  the  Proceed- 
ings of  the  Antiquarian  Society,  25  April  1S60,  36-3S. 

Hamersley,  J.  Hooker. 

John  Cabot,  Discoverer  of  the  North  American  Con- 
tinent. 
An  "Open   I.etter"  in  the    Century  Magazine,  y\;\y   1S97,  liv. 

154. 

'I"he  writer  derives  his  enthusiasm  for  the  celebration  of  the 
Cabot  anniversary  from  a  comparison  of  the  1S41  and  1S62  editions 
of  Bancroft,  Lnited  States. 


3t.  Lawrence,  from 
janonff.     A. 

nada,  8   May   1SS9.  'i"fl 

17-5S  (Montreal,  1890.) 

y  Cartography,"  27-43; 

ident  of  the  inHueiice  of 

I,   of  which  an  outline 


er,  in  the  Transactions 
Sec.   11,   121-1,^6,  has  a 


Ml. 

ler.  V.  263.    A.  052.13.15 
their  relative  veracity. 


1S47  fo**  ^'i*^  purpose  of 
:ions,  voyages,  traffics, 
tlie  period  of  colonial 
ring  out  the  liundredth 
;dited  translations  and 
nces  to  the  Cabots  are 
;ynkn,  Christy,  Gal. 

ALL. 


Harrisse. 

Bibliotheca  Americana  Vetustisssima  a  description  of 
works  relating  to  America  publislied  between  the  years 
1492  and  155 1. — New  York,  1866.  (i  1380.13) 

pp.  liv-(-5i9.    4to. 

In  a  foor  note  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  name,  59-60,  are  given 
■"several  overlooked  autiiorities  concerning  his  memorable  voy- 
age." 

A  supplementary  volume,  has  the  title  given  above,  to  the  dates 
"  1492  and  1551,*'  followed  by 

Additions — Paris,  Tross,  1S72. 
pp.  xl-l-199.    4to. 

Jean  et  Sebastien  Cabot. — Paris,  1882. 

See  full  title  .above,  under  Sources. 

The  Discovery  of  North  America,  a  critical,  docu- 
mentary,  and  historic  investigation,  with  An  Essay  on 
the  Early  CartograpHy  of  the  New  World,  including 
Descriptions  of  Two  Hundred  and  Fifty  Maps  or 
Globes  existing  or  lost,  constructed  before  the  }ear 
1536;  to  which  are  added  A  Chronology  of  One  Hun- 
dred Voyages  Westward,  Projected,  Attempted,  or  Ac- 
complished between  1431  and  1504;  Biographical  Ac- 
counts of  the  Three  Hundred  Pilots  who  first  crossed 
the  Atlantic;  and  a  Copious  List  of  the  Original 
Names  of  American  Regions,  Caciqueships,  Moun- 
tains, Islands,  Capes,  Gulfs,  Rivers,  Towns,  and  Har- 


53 


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-London,  B.  F.   Stevens, 
(2081.13) 


Harrisse,  contiuued. 

bours.  bj    Henrv  Harrisse. 
1892. 

pp.  xii-f-Soi.     2j  plates.    410. 

3!so  copies  issued. 

"The  First  Voyage  of  John  Cabot,  1497.""  The  Claims  of  Sebas- 
tian  Cabot,"  "The  Second  Voyage  of  John  Cabot,  149S-I499(?)," 
1.50. 

America  believed  to  be  distinct  from  Asia;  opinions  of  John 
Cabot,  107-10S. 

Contemporary  references  to  maps  by  John  Cabot,  406-^ ia  . 

Biography  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  706-708. 

Extracts  from  the  Wardens  Manuscript  Accounts  of  the  Drapers 
Company  of  I.ondon.  From  March  istto  April  9th,  1521,  concern- 
ing Sebastian  Cabot.    747-750. 

For  a  review  of  this  work,  see  under  Winsor. 

Sebastien  Cabot,  navigateur  vdnetien. 

In  Ludovic  Drapeyron,  Revue  tie  Gioifraplne,  (Paris,  Novem- 
brc  iS94-Mars  1895),  xxxv,  331-388,  474-4Si,xxxvi.  16-23,  97-104, 
200-207. 

Signed  R.  A.  V. 

A  rKvijw  of  TaiJDUCCI,  Ctil'ot,  in  Harrisse's  most  positive 
style. 

John  Cabot,  the  discoverer  of  North-America  and 
Sebastian  his  Son,  a  chapter  of  the  maritime  history 
of  England  under  the  Tudors,  1496-1557.  By  Henry 
Harrisse — London,  B.  F.  Stevens,  1896.  (3774.2)    B.  A. 

pp.  xi+SO?.  10  maps,  facsimile,  royal  Svo. 

Harrisse  still  contends  for  the  theory  of  a  landfall  on  the  l^a. 
hrador  coast,  and  "  shoves  aside  the  evidence  of  the  Cabot  map. 
This  he  does  in  the  belief  that  at  this  time,  1544,  France,  through 
Cartier's  exploration,  was  establishing  claims  about  the  St.  Law. 
rence  gulf  to  the  prejudice  of  England,  and  that  Cabot,  now  in 
England,  in  order  to  rehabilitate  the  English  counter-claim,  falsi- 
fied the  record,  and  inserted  the  inscription  in  a  way  to  support  the 
right  of  England  to  the  territory  adjacent  to  the  gulf.  It  is  hardly 
safe  to  hold  that  either  ..  .has  established  his  theory  beyond  dis- 
pute."— Winsoi,  CoiitroTersies,  7. 

In  1SS2,  Mr.  Harrisse  printed  in  a  single  volume  ail  the 
scattered  documents,  narratives,  and  chance  references,  from 
which  must  be  f'.erived  any  real  historical  knowledge  of  the  lives, 
the  achievements,  and  the  characters,  of  John  and  Sebastian  Cabot. 
In  1S96  he  supplemented  and  completed  his  work,  by  i)ublishing 
the  arguments  and  the  conclusions  at  which  he  had  arrived  in  each 
of  the  confusing  problems  which  had  made  Cabot  "  the  sphynx  of 
American  history." 

Mr.  Harrisse's  book  is  not  a  history;  it  is  rather  a  laboratory 
manual,  in  which  the  student  finds  revealed  each  step  of  the  pro- 
cesses  through  which  the  material  of  history  has  been  forcea,  in 
order  that  it  might  be  made  to  render  up  the  truth  which  was  con- 
tained within  it.  The  subject  is  peculiarly  suited  to  the  treatment 
adopted  by  Mr.  Harrisse, — a  treatment  peculiarly  adapted  to  his 
personal  strength  as  an  investigator  of  historical  problems. 

54 


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jdon,  B.  F.   Stevens, 

(2081.13) 


"•' The  Claims  of  Sebas. 
ohn  Cabot,  I49S-I499(?)," 

Asia;    opinions  of  John 

•hn  Cabot,  4o6-<j>^. 

t  Accounts  of  the  Drapers 

0  April  9th,  1521,  concern. 

/INSOR. 

netien. 

i^raphie,  (Paris,  Novem- 
j-4Si,xxxvi.   16-23,   97-104, 

Harrisse's  most  positive 

North-America  and 
he  maritime  history 
^96-1557.     By  Henry 

1896.  "(^774.2)    B.  A. 

Ivo. 

3f  a  landfall  on  the  l^a- 
idence  of  the  Cabot  map. 
me,  1544,  France,  through 
:laims  about  the  St.  Law. 
,  and  that  Cabot,  now  in 
glish  counter-claim,  falsi, 
on  in  a  way  to  support  the 
t  to  the  gulf.  It  is  hardly 
sd  his  theory  beyond  dis- 

single  volume  all  the 
chance    references,    from 

1  knowledge  of  the  lives, 
ohn  and  Sebastian  Cabot. 
I  his  work,  by  publishing 
ich  he  had  arrived  in  each 
de  Cabot  "  the  sphynx  of 

it  is  rather  a  laboratory 
lied  each  step  of  the  pro- 
istory  has  been  forced,  in 
the  truth  which  was  con- 
ly  suited  to  the  treatment 
peculiarly  adapted  to  his 
istorical  problems. 


Harrisse,  continued. 

His  estimate  of  the  character  of  Sebastian  Cabot  is  probably  not 
fair  or  true;  but  he  has  rendered  an  inestimable  service,  in  that  he 
has  made  possible,  in  the  future,  a  characterization  which  shall  be 
fair  to  human  nature  and  true  to  the  facts  of  history.  His  magni- 
ficent services  as  investigator  and  as  student  have  transformed 
one  of  the  most  perplexing  and  most  dimly  hidden  problems  of 
colonial  history  into  one  ot  those  most  easily  understood. 

This  work  has  been  reviewed  in  the  Saturday  Revieiu,  Ixxxi, 
255-256',  Aitii'firan  Histor.  Revit'w,  July  1896,  i.  717-T21,  by 
N.-h,.  Dionne;  and  in  the  Review  of  Historiral  Publications 
relating  to  Canada,  i.  1895-1896,  ( I'oronto,  1S97),  TTniversity  of 
Toronto  Studies  in  History,  Geo.  \I.  Wrong,  editor,  20-33. 

The  note  at  the  beginning  ot  this  Bibliography  will  show  how 
largely  Mr.  Harrisse's  work  has  contributed  to  the  presciu  com- 
pilaiion. 

When  did  John  Cabot  discover  North  America.' 

In  The  Forum,  New  York,  June  1897,  xxiii.  463-475. 

In  this  article,  Mr.  Harrisse  emphasizes,  in  Ins  most  popular 
form,  his  established  opinion  "  thai  with  our  present  sources  of  in- 
formation no  one  is  warranted  in  asserting  that  John  Cabot  discov. 
ered  the  continent  of  North  America  on  June  24,  1497,  or  that  his 
landfall  was  Cape  Breton." 

Hart. 

American  History  told  by  contemporaries.  Volume  i. 
Era  of  colonization,  1492-1689.  Edited  by  Albert 
Bubhnell  Hart. — New  York,  Macmillan,  1897. 

pp.  xvii-|-6o6.  Svo. 

The  references  to  Cabot's  voyages  in  the  letter  of  Pasqualigo 
and  the  dispatches  of  Raimondo  01  Soncino  "re  printed  on  pp. 
69.72. 

Harvey,  Mosas. 

The  voyages  and  discoveries  of  the  Cabots,  by  th^. 
Rev.  M.  Harvey,  of  St.  John's,  Newfoundland. 

In  ,Vova  Scotia  /{istorical  Society  Collections,  for  1S93-95, 
(Halifax,  1S9S),  ix.  17-37.     H. 

See  the  Proceeding ■<  of  the  Royal  Society  of  Canada,  xii. 
pp.  xvi-xvii.  (Ottawa^  1S95),  for  an  abstract  of  Hr.  Harvey's  letter 
to  tlie  Royal  Society,  stating  his  reasons  for  advocating  the  cel- 
ebration of  the  anniversary  of  Cabot's  landfall. 

Hayward. 

Life  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  by  Charles  Hayward,  Jr. 

(3.3«-i-9) 

In  Sparks,  Library  of  American  Biography,  ix.  S9-162.     (Bos- 
ton, 1S3S.) 
Avowedly  based  upon  Riddle,  Memoirs. 


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Hellwald,  Frikdrich  (Anton  Heller)  von. 

Sebastian  Cabot.  Von  Friedrich  von  Hellwald. — 
Berlin,  1871. 

pp.  .^3.  8vo. 

In  Sammlung  gemetnverstdndUcher  wissenschaftlicher  Vor. 
trcig'e,  herausgceeben  von  Rtid.  Virckow  und  Fr.  v.  Holtzendorff, 
vi.  Ser.  iv,  (cxxiv). 

"  Vortrag,  gehalten  am  17  Mai  iSyo  in  der  k.  k.  geograf- 
ischen  Gesellschaft  zu  VVien." 

Herbert. 

The  History  of  the  twelve  great  livery  companies 
of  London;  p-incipally  compiled  from  their  grants  and 
records,  with  an  historical  essay  by  William  Herbert. 
— London,  1837.     H. 

2  vols.    Svo. 

This  contains,  I.  410-411,  the  substance  of  the '*  Protest  of  the 
Twelve  Great  Liveries  of  London  against  employing  Sebastian 
Cabot  to  command  an  English  expedition  to  the  New  World," 
March-April,  1521,  which  is  also  printed,  from  the  original  Ward- 
ens Accounts  of  the  Drapers  Company,  in  Harrisse,  Discovery, 
747-750- 

HiLLARD. 

Sebastian  Cabot. 

A  critical  review  of  BiDDLE,  Memoir,  by  George  S.  Hillard,  in 
the  North  American  Revievj,  Boston,  April  1832,  xxxiv.40v42S. 

('537 -I -34) 
Hoi'P^R,  CI. 

See  notes  above,  Sources,  under  Cabot,  Letter  to  Charles  V.; 
and  under  Charles  V. 


M 


HORSFORD. 

John  Cabot's  landfall  in  1497,  and  the  Site  of  No- 
rumbega,  a  letter  to  chief-justice  Daly,  president  of 
the  American  Geographical  Society,  by  Eben  N.  Hors- 
ford. — Cambridge,  1886.     A. 

Horsford's  letter  to  Judge  Daly  we  have  only  as  it  is  included 
in  his  second  letter  to  Judge  Diily,  *'  The  problem  of  the  Northmen" 

(2081.9) 

pp,  42,  S  maps,  plate,    quarto. 

Presents  a  tlieory  tiiat  the  Cabot  landfall  was  on  Salem  Neck, 
or  possibly  Cape  Ann,  Massachusetts,  in  42  degrees  32,  N.  lat. 

See  note  below,  under  Howley. 

The  excellent  facsimile  reuroductions  of  the  earliest  maps  of  the 
New  England  coast,  with  wnich  Mr.  Horsford  illustrated  many  of 
his  Norumbeifa  publication*,  give  them  very  considerable  value  to 
students  to  whom  the  originals  are  inaccessible. 

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Heller)  von. 

ich  von  Hellwald. — 


zvissenscliaftliclier    Vor. 
und  Fr.  V.  Holtzendorff, 

in  der    k.    k.    geograf- 


:at  livery  companies 
"rom  their  grants  and 
bv  William  Herbert. 


:e  of  the  '«  Protest  of  the 
ist  emploving  Sebastian 
)n  to  the  New  World," 
from  the  original  Ward, 
n  Harrisse,  Discovery, 


by  George  S.  Hillard,  in 
ril  1832,  xxxiv.405.42S. 

('537 -I -34) 


T,  Letter  to  Charles   V.; 


md  the  Site  of  No- 
Da  I  j,  president   of 
J,  by  Eben  N.  Hors- 

e  only  as  it  is  included 
robleni  of  the  Northmen" 

(2081.9) 

all  was  on  Salem  Neck, 
42  degrees  3/,  N,  lat. 

'the  earliest  maps  of  the 
iford  illustrated  many  of 
ry  considerable  value  to 
isible. 


HOVVLAND. 

The  fourth  centenary  of  Canadian  History,  by  O.  A. 
Howland,  M.  P.  P. 
In  the  Canadian  Magazine,  Toronto,  January,  1S95. 

HowLEY,  James  P. 
The  Landfall  of  Cabot. 

In    the    'Aulletin-Transactions  of  the  Geographical   Society  of 
•C^iiebec,  for  1SS6-1SS9,  no.  v,  67-7S,  (Qiiebec.  1889). 

Written  to  refute  the  theory  raised  by  Professor  Hoksford. 


HoWLEY,  M.  F. 

Cabot's  Landfall. 


(250.2.26) 


In  Mag.  Amer.  Hist.,  New  York,  October  1S91,  xxvi.  267-288. 

Gives  a  suggestive  illustrative  map. 

A  Newfoundlander,  basing  his  special  insight  on  the  personal 
knowled're  of  a  native,  he  "accepts  the  eastern  coast  of  New- 
foundland for  the  Cabot  Landfall,  and  indicates  the  particular  lo. 
cality  as  being  within  the  southeastern  peninsula,  or  the  old  col- 
ony of  Avalon,  as  granted  later  lo  Lord  Baltimore. — Winsor,  Con- 
troversies, 6. 

HUGUES. 

Le  navigazioni  di  G.  e  S.  Cabotto  Memoria  del 
Professore  Luigi  Hugues.     \\. 

In  Memoire  del/a  Societa  Geografca  Italiana,  Roma,  1S78, 
i.  pt.  iii,  275-313.    Svo. 

Professor  Hugues  also  refers  to  the  Cabot  voyages  in  his  //  terzo 
viaggio  di  Amerigo   Ves/iiirri,  Firenze,  1S78,  pp.  5-8. 

Humboldt. 

Examen  critique  de  I'histoire  de  la  geographic  du 
nouveau  continent  et  des  progres  de  I'astronomie 
nautique  aux  quinzieme  et  seizieine  siecles,  par  Alex- 
andre de  Humboldt. — Paris,  1636-1839.     B. 

5  vols.  Svo. 

No  table  of  contents  or  index. 

"  Les  documents  les  plus  important  pour  I'histoire  des  deux 
prenueres  navigations  de  Sebaslien  Cabot,"  pp.  231-232. 

iiUNT. 

Historic  Towns — Bristol,  by  William  Hunt. — Lon- 
don, Longmans,  1887.  (20701.7) 

pp.  230.  Svo. 

A  very  good  account  of  the  Cabots,  following  Mr.  Deane's  work 
•closely,  I26.I35. 

37 


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Jones. 

Divers  voyages,  published  by  Richard  Hakluyt,  15S2. 
Edited,    With    Notes   and    an    Introduction,    by  John 
Winter   Jones,    of    the    British    Museum. — London, 
Hakluyt  Society,  1S50. 

pp.  cxi+177,  facsimile,  2  maps.  Svo. 

For  the  (Jal)ots,  besides  the  material  in  Hakluyt's  bonk  (see 
notes  to  title  under  his  name,  above  under  SotrKCEs),  see  Mr. 
Jones's  introduction,  pp.  Ivii,  Ixviii-lxxiii. 

Jl  RIEN  DE  LA  GrAVIERE,  JeAN  BaPTISTE  EdMOND. 

Les  marins  du  xvie  siecle.  I.  Sebastien  Cabot  at  Sir 

Hugh  Willoughby. 

In  Revue  des  deux  iiiondes,  i  Juin  1S76,  xv.  757-784.  A.  (059.20  223) 
This  was  the  first  of  a  series  of  able  papers,  which  were  reprinted 
in  book  form,  Paris,  1S76. 
See  note  under  Travers  Twiss,  below. 

Kidder. 

The  discovery  of  America  by  John  Cabot,  a  first 
chapter  on  the  history  of  North  America,  by  Frederick 
Kidder. — Boston,  iSj'S. 

pp.  15.     plates.    Svo. 

Read  before  the  Maine  Historical  Society,  17  February  1S74. 

Reprinted  from  the  N.  E.  Hist,  Gen.  Register,  October  1878^ 
xxxi1.3S1.3SS.  (350.1.32) 

Mr.  Kidder  bases  his  argument  that  Cabot  sailed  around  the 
Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence,  upon  the  reported  slack  tides,  wiiich  would 
be  very  noticeable  when  compared  with  those  at  the  Enjjlish 
Bristol. 

Kohl,  Johann  Georg. 

A  descriptive  catalogue  of  those  Maps,  Charts,  and 

Surveys,  relating  to  America,  which  are  mentioned  in 

Vol.  iii.  of  Hakluyt's  Great   Work,   by  J.  G.  Kohl.— 

Washington,  1S57. 

pj).  86.  Svo. 

See  11-16  for  a  discussion  of  the  references  to  Cabot's  map,  in 
Hakluyt. 

A  history  of  the  discovery  of  the  east  coast  of  North 
America,  particularly  the  coast  of  Maine,  from  the 
Northmen  in  990,  to  the  charter  of  Gilbert  in  1578,  by 
J.  G.  Kohl  of  Bremen,  Germany.  Illustrated  by  copies 
of  the  earliest  maps  and  charts. — Portland,  1869. 

248.7.7 

pp. 497,  Svo. 

58 


iji 

\ 

Richard  Hakluyt,  15S2. 

ntroduction,    by  John 

Museum. — London, 


al  in  Hiikluyt's  book  (see 
under  Soukces),  see  Mr. 
lii. 


Baptiste  Edmond. 
S^bastien  Cabot  et  Sir 


'1  XV.  757-784.  A.  (059.20  223) 
iipers,  which  were  reprinted 


V. 


)y  John  Cabot,  a  lirst 
America,  by  Frederick 


)ciety,  17  February  1S74. 
Tf>i.  Ri'gistfr,  October  1S7S,. 
(350.1.32) 
lat  Cabot  sailed  around  the 
ted  shick  tides,  wliich  would 
with   those   at  the    English 


ose  Maps,  Charts,  and 
vhich  are  mentioned  in 
^ork,    by  J.  G.  Kohl. — 


ferences  to  Cabot's  map,  in 


Kohl,  continued. 

This  forms  volume  I.  of  a  DoctiiHinlnrv  History  of  thr  Stair  of 
AFtiuti',  edited  by  Willi.im  Willis,  wliich  In  turn  began  a  "  second 
series"  of  the  Collrrtioiis  of  the  Slaine  Historical  Society. 

Chapter  iv,  121-146,  deals  with  the  Cabot  expedition,  with  an 
"  appendix  "  on  the  maps,  147-163. 

See  notes  under  Avkzac,  Lrttn'  uk  reTeriHii  Leo/iarJ  ll'ooJs, 
for  the  A/>/'f»iii.\-  to  this  volume. 

•Mr.  Kohl's  nanative  is  greatly  condensed  in  J.nrneA,  J fistory 
for  Ri'iidy  RfJ'ereuct\  i,  54. 

Larned. 

History  for  Ready  Reference  from  the  best  histori- 
ans, biographers,  and  specialists,  in  the  Engh'sh  lan- 
guage, by  J.  N.  Larned,  with  numerous  historical 
maps  from  original  studies  and  drawings  by  Alan  C. 
Reiley. — Springfield,  Mass.,  C.  A.  Nichols  Co.     1894. 

5  vols,  folio. 

See  notes  under  Bancroft,  Deane,  and  Kohi.,  above,  for  the 
narrative  of  the  Cabot  discoveries,  i.  51-54. 

La  RoquE. 

Armorial  de  la  Noblesse  de  Languedoc  gen^ialite  de 
Montpellier  par  M.  Louis  de  la  Roque. — Montpellier, 
i860.     B.  P.  L. 

2  vols.  8vo. 

In  ii.  163-165,  there  is  an  account  of  a  family  of  Cabnts,  belong, 
ing  to  this  province,  who  descended  from  Jean  Cabot,  a  Venetian 
nobleman,  who  settled  in  Bristol,  England,  in  the  reign  of  Henry 
vii;  was  a  distinguished  navigator,  tlie  discoverer  of  TerreNeuve, 
thence  passing  to  the  service  of  Spain.  He  had  three  sons,  of 
whom  two,  Louis  and  Sebastian,  have  the  same  names  as  those 
mentioned  in  the  Cabot  Letters  Patent  of  1496.  The  French  fam- 
ily claimed  desct.  t  from  Louis,  the  second  son.  The  device  and 
motto  of  this  family  are  the  same  as  those  of  the  Jersey  family, 
from  whom  the  New  England  Cabots  are  descender!,  which  differ 
from  the  motto  given  on  the  portrait  of  Sebastian  Cabot. 

Harrisse  describes  his  fruitless  efforts  to  substantiate  the  claims 
of  this  family,  in  his  Cahot,  381-384. 


the  east  coast  of  North 
t  of  Maine,  from  the 
'  of  Gilbert  in  1578,  by 
V'.  Illustrated  by  copies 
, — Portland,  1869. 

248.7.7 


Lodge,  Henry  Cabot. 
The  home  of  the  Cabots. 

In  The  Nimteenth  Crnti/ry,  M.ay  1S97,  734-7iS. 

*'  The  strongest  evidence  we  have  shows  that  the  men  who  gave 
England  her  title  to  Morth  America ....  sprang  from  tl'ose  Channel 
Islands  (jersey),  which  have  been  a  part  of  Great  Britain  ever 
since  William  the  Conqueror  seized  the  English  Crown." 


59 


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■  IN 


; 


Mackintosh. 

Cabot  and  other  western  explorers,  by  the  I 'on.  C. 
H.  Mackintosh,  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  N.  W. 
Territories. 

In  the  Canadi'on  MaiU'aziiit',  Toronto,  December  1S96,  viii.  150- 
156.    A. 

A  glowing  sketch  of  the  discovery  and  exploration  of  Canada 
from  1496  to  iSSS- 


Major. 

The  true  date  of  the  English  Discovery  of  the  Amer- 
ican Continent  under  John  and  Sebastian  Cabot :  a 
letter  addressed  by  Richard  Henry  Major  to  C.  S. 
Perceval.     H. 


In   Arrlneologia,   published  by  the 
London,  iS7i,xliii.  17-42.      Reprinted  ! 
Read  to  the  Society  5  May  1S70. 


Society  of  Antiquaries  of 
separately,  pp,  26.    4to. 


The  Life  of  Prince  Henry  of  Portugal,  surnamed 
the  Navigator;  and  its  results:  comprising  the  dis- 
covery, within  one  century,  of  half  the  world,  by 
Richard  Henry  Major.     London,  A.  Asher,  1868. 

3064.18 

pp.  111+487.    5  plates,  4  maps,    royal  Svo. 

Discus.ses  the  sometime  important  problem  of  whether  Colum- 
bus, Vespucius,  or  Cabot,  first  "  discovered  "  the  mainland  of 
the  American  continent;  367-374.  Index  refers  to  "Cabot 
(John)  with  his  brother  Sebastian." 


Madero. 

Prowse,  Xt'v.'foundland^  30,  cites  an  article  on  Sebastian  Cabot 
by  E.  Madero  of  Buenos  Ayres,  which  is  reviewed  by  Captain  Fer- 
nandez Duro  of  the  Royal  Spanish  Navy  in  La  Espafm  Modcrmi. 
This  "  throws  little  fresh  light  on  ihe  lives  of  the  Cabots." 


Markham,  Captain. 

The  voyages  and  works  of  John  Davis,  the  navi- 
gator, edited  by  Albert  Hastings  Markham. — London, 
Hakluyt  Society,  1880. 

pp.  xcv-l-392.     facsimile.    Svo. 

See  note  under  Mohneux,  for  the  map  among  SouitCKS  above, 
which  accompanies  this  volume. 

Reference  to  Sebastian  Gabota's  efforts  to  find  a  northwest  pas- 
sage, 195. 


60 


lorers,  by  the  Hon.  C. 
overnor  of   the   N.  W. 

to,  December  1896,  viii.  150. 
and  exploration  of  Canada 


discovery  of  the  Amer- 
id  Sebastian  Cabot :  a 
[enry   Major   to    C.  S. 

Society  of  Antiquaries  of 
icpunitely,  pp.  26.    410. 

>f  Portugal,  surnamed 
:    comprising  the  dis- 
)f   half  the    world,  by 
I,  A.  Asher,  1868. 

3064.18 
Svo. 

roblem  of  whether  Colum- 
rovered  "  the  mainland  of 
Index    refers    to    "Cabot 


article  on  Sebastian  Cabot 
s  reviewed  by  Captain  Fer- 
y  in  La  Espana  Modcrna. 
ves  of  the  Cabots." 


)hn   Davis,  the    navi- 
Markham. — London, 

p  among  Soukces  above, 
ts  to  find  a  northwest  pas- 


M 


Markham,  Sir  Clements  Robert. 

The  voyages  of  William  Baffin,  1612-1622,  edited  by 
Clements  R.  Markham. — London,  Ilakluyt  Society, 
18S1. 

pp.  lix-(-i92.     4  maps.    Svn. 

See  p.  XXX  :  "  an  excellent  system  of  log  books,  inaugurated  by 
Sebastian  Cabot,  was  enforced  by  the  Muscovy  Company."' 

The  Sea  Fathers  :     A   Series  of  lives  of  great  navi- 

gatoi  s  ot  former  times,  by  Clements  R.  Markham. — 

London  and  New  York,  Cassell,  1S84.     A.  3704.1 

pp.  viii4-22i.   Svo. 

An  ai)pcndix  ifivcs  very  brief  "notes  on  the  authorities." 

Sebastian  Cabota,  Sy-(/5. 

An  admirable  boys'  book. 

A  Life  of  John  Davis,  the  navigator,  1550-1605, 
discoverer  of  Davis  Straits,  by  Cletnents  R.  Mark- 
ham.— New  York,  Dodd  Mead.  (3074.20) 

pp.  301,  Svo. 

The  secoiul  chapter,  "  Preparations  for  the  North,"  summarizes 
the  work  of  the  Cabots. 

Life   of   Christopher    Columbus,    by    Cleinents    R. 
Markham. — London,  George  Philip,  1S92.       (3064.33) 
pp.  375.  3  plates.  6  maps.  Svo. 

Chap,  xii,  "  Voyages  to  the  Westward,  consequent  on  the 
achievement  of  Columbus,  I.  Cabot."  226-233,  gives  one  of  the 
most  satisfactory  statements  of  what  is  known  concerning  the 
Cabot  voyages  of  1496-149S. 

See  above,  under  Sources,  for  Sir  Clements  Markham's  edi- 
tion of  the  Journals  of  ColumbitK,  which  also  contains  the  impor- 
tant Cabot  documents. 

Markland,  J.  IL 
Sebastian  Cabot. 

In  Noti's  and  ^i/t-ri'rs,  2  January  iSjS,  2  ser.  v.  1.2.     A. 
Discussion  of  evidence  as  to  Sebastian  Cabot's  birthplace. 

Mead,  Edwin  D. 
See  Old  South  Leaflets,  under  Sources,  above. 

Morgan. 

Early  voyages  and  travels  to  Russia  and  Persia  by 
Anthony  Jenkinson  and  other  Englishmen.  With 
some  account  of  the  first  intercourse  of  the  English 
with  Russia. .. -Edited  by  E.  Delmar  Morgan  and  C. 
H.  Coote. — London,  Ilakluyt  Society,  1S86. 

2  vols.  pp.  clxii-f-496.  2  plates.    3  maps.    Svo. 
For  Sebastian  Cabot  and  tiie  Russian  or  Muscovy  Company,  see 
p.  Iv. 

61 


!r' 


ill' 


'  I  I;  'il 


Navarretk. 

Disertacion  sobre  la  historia  de  la  N.iiitica,  y  de  las 
ciencias  inateniaticas  c|ue  lian  contrihuido  d  sus  pro- 
gresos  eiitre  los  I£hpafioles,  obra  postiinia  del  D.  Mar- 
tin Fernandez  Navarrete  :  lapublica  la  Real  Acadetnia 
de  la  Historia. — Madrid,  1846.     H. 

pp.  421.  Svo. 

Sue  p.  13S,  where  Lord  "  Ulilie  "  becomes  "  Milort  Wllve." 

Coleccion  de  opusculos  del  D.  Martin  Fernandez  de 
Navarrete,  la  dan  a  luz  D.  Eustaqiiio  y  D.  Francisco 
Fernandez  de  Navarrete. — Madrid,  1848. 

2  vols.   Svo. 

Vol.  I.  1-304,  "  Hio}»-rafias  de  inurinos  y  descubridores."  For 
Cabot,  see  i.  65-66. 

Biblioteca  niaritima  Espafioia,  obra  postuma  dsl 
excmo.  sefior  don  Martin  Fernandez  de  Navarrete,  Di- 
rector que  fue  del  Deposito  Ilidrogrdfico  y  de  la  Acad- 
eniia  de  la  Historia,  etc.  Iinpresa  de  Real  orden. — 
Madrid,  1851. 

2  vi^ls.  pp.  xxxvii4-67i,-f-7S4  Svo. 

A  biographical  dictionary  of  S|)anish  seamen;  arranged,  ac- 
cording to  the  aggravating  plan  of  older  Spanish  works  of  this 
nature,  alphabetically  by  the  first  given  name  of  each  individual, 
so  that  the  account  of  Sebastian  Caboto  6  Gabolo  is  given  in  vol. 
ii,  697-700. 

See  Cali'icion  dv  rioi^t's — Madrid,  1S25-1S37;  entered  above, 
under  SouKCES. 

NiCHOLLS. 

The  Remarkable  Life,  Adventures,  and  Discoveries 
of  Sebastian  Cabot,  of  Bristol,  the  Founder  of  Great 
Britain's  Maritime  Power;  Discoverer  of  Ainerica, 
and  its  first  Colonizer.  By  J.  F.  Nicholls,  City  Libra- 
rian, Bristol. — London,  Samson  Low,  1869.   (3074.17) 

pp.  xv-l-iyo.  map.  cap,  4to. 

The  stylo  and  method  of  this  book  mav  be  judged  from  the 
author's  introductory  remark,  p.  x,  that  "  tlie  land  which  he  first 
discovered...  ought  at  this  day,  instead  of  America,  to  be  called 
Cabotia."  On  p.  iSS  Mr.  Nicholls  says:  "  Emphatically  the  most 
scientific  seaman  of  his  own,  or  perhaps  many  subsequent  ages — 
one  of  the  greatest,  bravest,  best  of  men." 

Mr.  Henry  Stevens,  in  a  review  of  this  book,  (see  entry  under 
his  name),  justly  gives  Mr.  Nicholls  full  credit  as  "  a  painstaking 
chronicler,  who  has  used  all  the  materials  that  the  active  research 
of  many  geographers  and  antiquaries  has  turned  up  in  the  present 
century,"  but  "  he  has  studied  so  lovingly  and  so  persistently  that 
he  has  (Sebastian)  Cabotized  all  his  surroundings." 

An  important  review  of  NichoU's  book,  written  by  M.  d'Avezac, 
appeared  in  the  Rrviii'  critique  J'Histoire  tt  ae  LitUriUnri', 
Paris,  23  April  1S70,  v.  264.269.     ' 

62 


ii ! :  I 


liMiJiilii 


de  la  Ndiitica,  y  de  las 

1  contiibiiido  d  sus  pro- 

ra  postunia  del  D.  Mar- 

il)iica  la  Real  Acadetnia 

H. 

comes  "  Milort  Wlive." 
^.  Martin  Fernandez  de 
staqiiio   y  D.  Francisco 
hid,  1848. 

inos  y  descubridores."     For 

)la,  obra  p6stuma  dsl 
indez  de  Navariete,  Di- 
Jiogrdfico  y  de  la  Acad- 
)resa  de  Real  orden. — 


nish  seamen;  arranged,  ac- 
older  Spanish  works  of  ihis 
en  name  of  each  individual, 
oto  6  Gabolo  is  g-iven  in  vol. 

I,   1S2S-1S37;    entered   above, 


ntiires,  and  Discoveries 
,  the  Founder  of  Great 
)iscoverer  of  America, 
F.  Nicholls,  City  Libra- 
n  Low,  1869.   (3074.17) 

ok  mav  be  judged  from  the 
hat  "  tlie  land  which  he  first 
iad  of  America,  to  be  called 
ys  :  "  Emphatically  the  most 
ips  many  subsequent  ages — 
en." 

this  book,  (see  entry  under 
full  credit  as  "  a  painstaking 
rials  that   the  active  research 

has  turned  up  in  the  present 
tigly  and  so  persistently  that 
surroundings," 
Dok,  written  by  M.  d'Avezac, 
^Histoire  tt  de  LitUrature, 


NicicoLLS,  continued. 

Bristol  past  and  present.  In-  ].  F.  Nicholls  and  John 
Taylor.— Bristol,  1SS1-1SS2.  '  U. 

3  vols.     .ftO. 

For  the  account  of  Sebastian  Cabot ,  see  i,  243,  and  especially  iii. 

Mr.  Nicholls  still  argues  for  a  voyage  in  1494,  and  thinks  it 
"very  likely"  that  John  Cabot  may  have  accoui])anied  his  son 
Sebastian  on  a  voyage  in  1497. 

Notes  and  Oi'erie.s.  A   medium  of    intercom- 

munication.—  London,  i849-[iS97.]     A.  o.S-'i3 

S  series,  n  volunu's  cacli.  small  410. 
Index  volume  for  fiicli  series. 

For  a  iliscussion  of  the  evidence  in  regard  to  Sebastian  Cabot's 
birthplace,  marked  rather  by  patriotic  tiian  by  critical  instinct,  see 

2  ser.  V.  1-2,  154-155.  i9,V4', 

3  ser.  I.  48-49,  125,  3W); 
Sser,  V.  405.     052.13.53 

Parton. 


28 


5> 


People's  Book  of  Biography;  or,  short  notes  of  the 
most  interesting  persons  of  all  ages  and  countries,  by 
James  Parton. — Hartford,  1S6S.  (370.2) 

pp.  624.    Svo. 

A  subscription-book  sketch  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  329-334. 

Payne. 

History  of  the  new  world  called  Ainerica  by  Edward 
John   Payne,   vol.    L — New  York,    Macmillan,    189^. 

(208.9.1) 

pp.  x.\xi-(-6o5.    Svo. 

The  reception  which  this  volume  received  has  been,  as  yet,  suf- 
ficient to  retard  the  appearance  of  its  successors. 

The  account  of  English  exploration,  and  of  John  Cabot,  231-243, 
revives  the  consolidation  of  the  Cabot  voyages  of  1497  and  1498, 
which  had  been  clearly  distinguished  sixty  years  betore  by  Mr, 
Biddle. 

"  The  Oxfordian  Payne,  who,  the  other  day,  in  his  '  New  World 
called  America,'  showed  himself  so  content  with  Hakluyt  that  he 
had  never  learned  there  were  two  Cabot  voyages." — \\  Insor,  in 
Nation^  Ivii.  433. 

Pedley. 

The  History  of  Newfoundland  from  the  earliest 
times  to  the  year  i860,  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Pedley. — 
London,  Longmans,  1863.     H. 


pp.  525.  map.  Svo. 
Cabot  expedition,  pp.  4 


10. 


63 


W-5! 


:<    I 


Peschel,  Oscar  (Ferdinand). 

Geschichte  der  Erdkiinde  bis  auf  Alexander  von 
Humboldt  und  Carl  Ritter.  Zweite  vermehrte  und 
verbesserle  Auflage  herausgegeben  von  Prof.  Dr. 
Sophus  Ruge. —  Muiiclien,  1877.  H. 

pp.  S32.    8vo. 

This  is  vol.  iv.  in  the  Geschichte  derWisaenschafteti  in  Deutsch- 
land,  Neuere  Zeit,  Herausgegeben  durch  die  Historische  Commis- 
sion hie  der  (Munich)  Kcinigl.  Academic  der  Wissenschaften. 

The  Cabot  voyages  are  referred  to  on  2S7-319. 

Geschichte  des  Zeitalters  der  Entdeckung  von  Oscar 
Peschel.— Stuttgart,  1858.     H. 

pp.  6S1.     Svo. 

Sebastian  Cabot,  ii.  Buch.  cap.  vi.  274.2S2;  or  215-221  in  the 
second,  1S77,  edition. 

An  excellent  account,  testing  Biddle's  conclusions  by  the  docu- 
ments. 

Pezzi. 

Di   Giovanni  Cabotto  rivelatore   del    settentrionale 
emisfero  d'America  con  docuinenti  inediti  esistenti  nei 
RR.  archivj  di  stato  di  Milano  raccolti  da  Carlo  Barbera 
Pezzi. — Venezia,  1S81. 
pp.51,  portrait,   small  4to. 

PiXKERTON. 

A  General  Collection  of  the  best  and  most  interest- 
ing Vo\ages  and  Travels  in  all  parts  of  the  World ; 
Digested  on  a  new  plan.  Bv  John  Pinkerton. — Lon- 
don, Longmans,  1808-1817.  H.  470.28 
vols,  plates.  4to, 


y„ 


'fWumes  xi-xiv,  whicii  relate  chiefly  to  America,  were  reissued 
in  1S19,  with  separate  title  pages. 

Six  volumes  were  reprinted  in  Philadelphia,  1S10-1812.    4to. 

The  account  of  the  Cabot  voyages  xii.  15S,  is  taken  from 
Campbell's  edition  of  Harris's   Navi/ij'aittium  Bibliothca. 

Pope. 

Jacques  Cartier.  His  Life  and  Voyages.  By  Joseph 
Pope. — [Ottawa,  1890.]     H. 

pp. 168.    Svo. 

F"or  an  excellent  summary  of  the  Cabot  voyages  see  19-22. 

The  Cabot  Celebration.  By  the  author  of  the 
"Memoirs  of  Sir  John  Macdonald." 

In  the  Canadian  Al'agazine,  Toronto,  December  1S99.  viii.  15S- 
164.    A. 

This  paper,  wliich  is  based  upon  a  considerable  personal 
acquaintance  with  the  best  literature  on  the  Cabot  controversies, 
also  off-irs  a  suggestive  glimpse  of  the  difliculties  which  arose 
from  the  proposal  to  celebrate  the  anniversary  of  the  Cabot  dis- 
covery, whicn  was  suspected  by  some  French  Canadians  as  an 
attempt  to  derogate  from  the  fanie  and  credit  of  Cartier. 


I.i 


'!     'lili'ill 


s  auf  Alexander  von 
Jweite  vermehrte  und 
eben    von    Prof.    Dr. 

H. 

Vissensrhaftett  in  Deutxch- 
ch  die  HistorischeCoinmis- 
lie  der  Wissenschaften. 

2S7.319, 

Entdeckung  von  Oscar 


274.2S2;  or  215-221    in  the 
s  conclusions  by  the  docu- 


)re  del  settentrionale 
ali  inediti  esistenti  nei 
ccolti  da  Carlo  Barbera 


est  and  most  interest- 

1  parts  of  the  World ; 

ohn  Pinkerton. — Lon- 

470.28 

to  America,  were  reissued 

elphia,  1S10-1812.    4to. 

s    xii.   15S,  is    taken    from 

rantium  Bibliothca. 


Prick,  GKoudK. 

Sebastian  Cabot. 
In   Xotcs  and  :Qiiiriis,  jo  p\l)nKirv  1S5S.     2  ser.  v.  154-15^.    A. 

Discussion  ot  i-viiiunce  aj^aiust  niistol  as  hiithplacc  of  Sebastian 
Caliot. 

Pkovvsk. 

A  History  of  Newfoiuidhuul  from  tbe  En<^lisb, 
Colonial,  and  Foreign  Records  by  1).  W.  Prowse. — 
London,  Nfacmillan,  1S95.     l>.  2095.15 

pp.  x?;iii-|-742.  .^5  plates,  map.  4to. 

A  supplement  contains  'A  history  of  the  Churches  in  Xew- 
foundhmd,"  pp.  56. 

Judfj;e  Prowse  has  rendered  an  especial  service  by  his  collection 
aiid  arrangement  of  chance  references  in  contemporary  documents, 
and  lonjc  established  customs  which  :irc  referred  to  in  later  pai)ers, 
to  show  the  paramount  ini|))rlance  of  the  liiiiflish  cod  fishery  oft 
the  Newfoundlaiul  coasts,  during  the  first  liallOt  the  xvi.  century. 
— W'insor,  Contri>T<rsiis,  S. 

Chapter  U,  Heign  of  Henry  VI  I.  KfSj-i  ;^a;,  yives  an  excellent 
account  of  the  Cabot  voyages,  f-17,  and  a  short  sketch  ot  Se- 
bastian Cabot's  career,  2i>,vi. 

Mr.  Prows'!  dcnihts  the  oriff  inal  diaracter  of  the  Cabot  ni.,p,  and 
contends  that  there  is  no  positive  leslinuuiv  as  to  the  jirec-se  spot 
of  the  landfall,  which  lie  thinks  may  liave  been  on  the  Knhrador  or 
N(!wfoundland  outer  coast,  jirdbably  at  C;iik'  Monavisln  im  the 
latter.— Winsor,  ('out rorersirs,  ('\ 

Sec  note  under  John  Mason. 

Ql'AKITCM,   BKRNAIil). 

See  notes  under  CAitor,  M ai'PEMondk,  amoiiL;-  the  Soi'kces 
above. 

Reimont. 

I  due  Cabolo  ccnni  slorico-crilici  di  Allreci(j  Reii- 
mont. — Firen/e,  iSSo.     II, 

l)p.  1 1 .     Svo. 


1  Voyages.  By  Joseph 


)t  voyages  see  19-22. 

the    author    of    the 

d." 

,  December  1S99.    viii.  158- 

a  considerable  personal 
the  Cabot  controversies, 
E  difficulties  which  arose 
iversary  of  the  Cabot  dis- 
French  Canadians  as  an 
redit  of  Cartier. 


RoniN'soN. 

An  account  of  discoveries  in  the  West  until  1519, 
and  of  vpyages  to  and  alonsj;  tiie  Atlantic  coast  of 
North  America,  from  15JO  to  157,5.  By  Con\va\  Robin- 
son.— Richmotid,  184S.     II.  20S1.5 

p)).  491.    Svo. 

"Prepared  for  The  \'irt>ini.i  Historical  and  Philosophical 
Society  by  the  chairman  of  the  executive  cmnmitlee." 

For  Caliot,  see  chapter  viii,  Siij^;  "a  vi'ry  gooil  resume  ot 
existing  knowledge  as  it  stood  at  thai  time."' 

"5 


I, 


I   I 


■^  ■iwiJu^Bffwvnavni 


■iljl 


R()Y.\r.  S()c:ii:tn    of  Canada. 

Menioires  .  .  .  Proceedin<fs  aiui  Transactions  of 
the  Royal  Society  of  Canada  for  iSS2-(iS(;4). — Mont- 
real, 1883 — (Ottawa,   1895).     A. 

Anniiiil  volume,  410. 

See  entries  under  Houkinot,  Ganong,  IIakvey,  Verreau. 

The  Discovery  of  America  hy  John  Cabot  in  1497. — 
Ottawa,  1896. 

A  piimphlet  annouiicinu;'  the  prnposcd  exercises  at  Hiilirax,  Cape 
Hreton,  and  Bristol,  luigland,  in  June  1S97. 
See  note  liy  W'insor,  in  Nnli'oii,  Ixiii.  253. 

RlXDALL. 

Narratives  of  vo\  ages  towards  tlie  north-west,  in 
search  of  p  passage  \o  Catiiay  and  India,  1496  to  1631. 
With  selections  from  the  early  records  of  the  Honour- 
able the  East  India  Company  by  Thomas  Randall. — 
London,  Ilakluyt  Society.  1849. 

pp.  xx-l-250.  2  inajis.     Svo, 

"  Voyaye  of  Sebastian  Cabnta,''  \-(\  from  Ilaidnyl. 

Skyek. 

Memoirs  historical  and  topographical  of  Hristol  and 

its  neighborhood  from  the  earliest  porioil  down    to  the 

present  time,    bv  the    Revd.    Samuel    Sever. — Bristol, 

18.M-1S23.     H.  '  ■       ■ 

2  vois.     plates,     (to. 
For  Caliot,  see  ii.  2nS  210. 

Smith,  Charlks  C. 

See  under  Cahot,  .NJ  ArrEMONUK,  above  under  Souhces,  for 
Mr,  Deane's  transcript  of  tlie  iej^ends  to  the  Cabot  inaj),  which 
were  communicated  to  the  Mass;u'husetts  Historical  Society, 
sliortly  alter  Mr.  Deane's  deiUh,  by  Mr.  Smith. 

Stevkns. 

Historical  and  geographical  notes,  1453-1530.  By 
Henry  Stevens,  GMB,  FSA,  MA  Vale,  etc.  [4  lines] 
and  lilk  Bid  Athm  Clli,  Lond. — Xew  Haven  (printed) 
London  oflice  of  the  author,  1869. 

jiji.  54.   ()  photolilhographical  plates,     large  Svo. 

"A  few  Copies  printed  for  presents.  Twcntv-five  copies  printed 
for  sale," 

See  pp.  2i),  |^-<),  lor  mention  of  the  Cabot  voyagi's,  in  their  rela- 
tion to  utiier  lontempoiaiy  expi'dilions,  and  to  the  j^cogi  aphical 
knowli'tige  of  the  tinif. 


Transactioiis    of 

S2-(iS94).— Mont- 


AKVEY,  VeRREAU. 

ti  Cabot  in  1497. — 
cisfs  at  Halifax,  Cape 


le  north-west,  in 
ulia,  1496  to  163 1. 
s  of  tiie  Ilonour- 
lotnas  Rundall.— 


lakliivt. 


cal  of  Pxistol  and 

lioci  ilown    to  tiie 

Sever. — IJiihtoi, 


under    SoUKCES,   ibr 
;*   Cal)ot  in.ip,   which 
Historical    Society, 
h. 


>    1 453- '530.      By 

'ale,  etc.  [4  linesj 

Haven  (printed) 

Svo. 

y-iivc  copies  printed 

lyajrcs,  in  tlieir  rela- 
In    the  y(<i«r:iphi(  ul 


Stevens,  contiiined. 

Sebastian  Cabot — folni  Cabot=:(J  F2ndeavorcd  bv 
Ileniy  Stevens  G  M"  B  etc.— Boston  :  OlVice  of  tlie 
Daily  Advertiser.  London  :  Ollice  of  the  Author,  4 
Trafalgar  Square.     March  1870.     (377.19.) 

pp.  ,^2.     siiuare  121HO.  , 

Tliis  little  essay,  in  Mr.  Stevens  best  style,  was  originally  pub- 
lished as  the  first  ot'a  series  of  articles  on  "  Our  CJokicn  Candle- 
sticks," printed  ill  the  .Sunday  supplements  to  the  Uoston  Daily 
Advirtist'f.     'i'he  Cabot  article  appeared  iij  March   1S70. 

See  extracts  from  this  criticism  of  NiciiOM.s,  Sfbastinn  Ctibul, 
under  the  entry  of  that  remarkable  \Vf)rk,  above. 

Mr.  Stevens,  iS  oilers  an  interesting-  suiruestion  that  John  Cabot 
may  have  consulted  with  Coiundius  or  I, a  Cosa  in  Seville,  l>etween 
March  1  (i/j  and  April  1(97,  or  during-  the  next  succeeding  winter. 
He  also  makes  a  strong  iiresentalion  of  the  arf^uments  against  the 
Cabots  having  explored  the  .\ineric;in  coast  south  of  Nova 
.Scotia. 

A  considerable  extract  from  this  essay  was  reprinted  by  Stevens 
in  his  liib/i(ilhi<  a  I/islorii  a,  "or  a  catalogue  of  5,0a)  volumes  of 
books  and  manuscripts  .  .  .  to  be  sold  at  auction  in  Hoston  5-S 
April  1S70" ;  2io-2],\. 

Sii/rE. 

II  is  to  I  re  des  Canadiens-Frani^ais  ;  i^oS-iSSo.  Par 
Benjamin  Suite. — Montreal,  1S82-18S4.     II.         2095. u 

8  volumes,  map.  (to. 

There  is  a  suggestive  comment  on  the  Cabot  voyage,  showing  a 
F'rench  Canadian's  estimate  of  tiie  English  claim  to  America  by 
virtue  of  this  discovery,  in  I.  S. 

Tardi  C  C  I. 

R.  Deputazione  \'eneta  di  Storia  Patria  e  Di  Giovanni 
e  Sebastiano  Caboto.  Memorie  raccolte  e  docuinen- 
tate  da  F.  Tarducci.— \'ene/ia,  1S92. 

p|:.  1-211.     portrait.    Svo. 

John  and  Sebastian  Cabot:  Biographical  Notit'e, 
with  Documents  By  Francesco  Tardiicci.  Trans- 
lated from  the  Italian  by  Henry  F.  Brownson.  De- 
troit [the  translator]  1S93.     H. 

pp.  412.    Svo. 

"Stubbornly  adheres  to  exploited  theories." 

Written  without  intimate  acquaintance  with  Cabot  literature  in 
Englisli.  especially  Mr.  Deane's  work,  of  wliicii  he  appears  tube 
wholly  ignorant. 

Iteviewed  by  Justin  Winsor  in  the  .Wit ion,  Ivii.  4;vV!'  "A 
pretty  sjond  cham|)ion  for  the  maligned  son  (Sebastian)  ...  lie  is 
somewhat  tVisky  at  times  when  he  crosses  lances  witli  Harrissc. 
We  may  certainly  thank  him  for  full  references  and  for  printing 
many  of  the  coiitem|)orary  documents,  or  the  essential  parts  of 
tliem,  and  the  translator  enables  us  to  read  them  all   in   English," 


7 


ib 


:     I 


r  ;i; 


e : 


T  \Rl)lci.l,  coiiftnurd. 

See  note  under  ITarrissc,  tor  a  review  of  tijese  works,  in 
Drapeyron,  Revue  Jr  (icogrupliir,  for  iS94-iSi)5' 

Francesco  Tardiicci — Ln  patria  di  Giovanni  Caboto. 
—Torino,  1S92.     II. 

.     PP-  .W.    Svo. 

"  Estrattodalla  Rivista  Sti>ri<a  Ita/iaun,"  \\.  fasc.  I,  i8yJ. 

An  elaliorate  discussion  of  ti  c  evidence  as  to  the  birthplace  of 
John  Cahot,  finding-  in  favor  of  Venice, — Winsor,  Coiilvovcr- 
.v/V,s4. 

The  Appendix  contains  references  to  sixteen  diflerent  spellmi^s 
of  tiie  name  of  the  Ciibots,  and  extracts  from  the  important  '->cu- 
meiits,  31-39. 

TlIACIIER. 

Tiie  continent  of  America,  its  discovery  and  bap- 
tism, an  essay..  ..by  Jolin  IJoyd  Tiiaclier.  —  New 
York,  Benjamin,  1S96. 

pp.  270.  2  phites.  22  maps. 

This  magnilicent  volume  from  the  de  V'innc  press,  derives 
considerable  value  from  its  excellent  facsimiles  of  important  xvi. 
century  maps  and  charts.  It  is  most  interesting,  however,  as  evi- 
dence of  the  beijinniniJ^^s,  in  America,  of  that  coml)ination  of  schol- 
arly labors  with  the  harrassin^:  duties  of  public  p<>litical  service, 
which  lends  so  charming- a  cliaracter  to  nnich  public  life  iii  Eu- 
rope, most  notably  in  England. 

For  Cabot,  see  200-20J;. 

Twiss,  Travers. 

Christopher  Cohitiibtis  and  Sebastian  Cabot. 

In  the  Xnulical  Mas^azinc,  London,  July  and  August  1S76,  xlv. 
S77-S>^7.  675-<;>>S4.    B.  P.  L. 

rhe  second  article  deals  especially  with  Cabot, 

This  discussion  of  the  relative  merits  and  influence  of  Columbus 
and  Cabot  on  American  discovery  should  be  compared  witli  a 
somewhat  similar  review  by  Admiral  Guavier,  noted  above. 

Tyti.kk. 

Historical  view  of  tlie  prou[ress  of  discovery  on  tlic 
more  norlliern  coasts  of  America  from  the  earliest  pe- 
riod to  the  present  time,  by  Patrick  F^-aser  Tytler. 
To  which  is  added  an  Appendix,  containing  retnarks 
on  a  late  memoir  of  Sebastian  Cabot,  with  a  vindica- 
tion of  Richard  Ilakluyt. — Edinburgii,  1S32. 

pp.  . 144.    i2mo. 

No.  ix  in  the  "  Ediiihnrgh  Cabinet  Library,"  and  reprinted  in 
New  York,  Harpers  isy,,  ;is  no.  liii.  in  "TheFamily  Library;" 
pp.  360.  map.  1  2mo.     H. 

6S 


!|    :i 


r'ww   of    tlicse    works,    in 

di  Giovanni  Caboto. 


tfi<r,"  ix.  fuse.  I,  1893. 

:e   as  lo  the   birth  pi  aco  of 

cc, — Wiiisor,    Coiilrcvrr- 

iixtocii  diflerc'iit  spellitiifs 
from  the  importanl  '-^cu- 


discoven'  and   bap- 
vd    Tbacher.  —  New 


clc  Viiinc  press,  derives 
similes  of  important  xvi. 
erestin<;-,  however,  as  evi- 
hat  eoml)inatioi)  of  sciiol- 
F  public  political  service, 
much    public  life  in   Eu- 


"^n. 


Varxiiagex. 

See  under  d'  Ave/.ac,  (On-^iiirrdtiniis  0'rr>j,>)-(i/'/ii(/riis, 

Vhrrkai'. 

There  are  su^g'cstive  references  to  the  C'aliot  voyatfers,  iVom 
tlie  standpoint  of  a  F'rcnch  Canadian,  in  jiapers  hy  the  vVbhe 
llos))ice  Verreau  in  the  Memoircs  of  the  Hoyal  Society  ol  Canada 
for  iSyi.2;  viii.  sec.  1,  103-15^;  ix.  sec.  73-S3.     A. 


We  ARK. 

Cabot's  discovery  of  Noilii  x\nieiica.  l>y  G.  E. 
Weare. — London,  Macqiieen,   1S97. 

p)).  ^'-[-343.   12  maps  and  plaets.  Svo. 

'I'liis  volume  is  announced  as  "  soon  to  ap|)ear,*"  in  June  i8t)7    H. 

In  a  well  conceived  article,  "John  Cabol,  an  Anniver.  -ry. 
Studv,"  based  upon  this  book,  in  liUiiicT.'ooiVs  Kdinbtirifh  Moira- 
//';/(-,  June  1S97,  clxi.  S3S-S51,  (054.21.161),  it  is  stated  that  "  Mr. 
AN'earc  makes  the  interestiiiff  sugg^cstion  '.iiat  Cabot  reached  the 
mainland  and  was  there  met  and  killed  by  Aloiiso  de  Hojeda,  who, 
with  I. a  Cosa,  the  map  maker,  as  cliief  i)ilot,  and  Amerigo  \'es. 
jHicci  as  one  of  his  '  useful  com])anions,'  set  sail  for  the  North  in 
the  sj)ring' of  141)1^.  We  might  thus  explain  the  presence,  in  La 
COsa's  map  of  1500,  of  English  Hags  on  territory  of  greatly  wider 
extent  than  tliat  discovered  by  Cabot  in  the  1-^07  voyage.  Hut  all 
this  is  conjecture;" — a  conjecture  which  will  not  have  been  in  vain 
if  it  draws  from  .Mr  Harrisse  a  serious  statement  of  his  opinion 
thereon. 


lastian  Cabot. 

ily  and  August  1S76,  xlv, 

1  Cabot. 

nd  influence  of  Columbus 
)uld  be  compared  with  a 
AVIEK,  noted  above. 


Weise. 

The  discoveries  of  America  to  tiie  year  15-5.     By 
Arliuir  Jaines   Weise. — London,   Bentiey,   1SS4.      B. 

20S1.3 

l)p.  xii-|-3So.     12  "  copies  of  rare  maps."     large  Svo. 
ChaiUer    vi,    i)p.    1S6-201,  deals   with  the   discoveries  made   hy 
Giovanni  and  Sebastiano  Caboto. 


of  discovery  on  the 
from  the  earliest  pe- 

trick  P'raser  Tytler. 
contrining   remarks 

ibot,  with  a  vindica- 

irgh,  1S33. 

ibrary,"  and  reiirintcd  in 
'The  Family  Library;  " 


WiNSOR. 

Narrative  and  critical  history  of  .\merica,  editetl  l)v 
Justin  ^\Mnsor. — Boston,  IIoiigiiton-MilHin  (1S84J- 
'1SS9.  '  (^oS.1.3) 

•Svols.  folio. 

Volumes  i  anil  viii  arc  dated  iSSi;;  iii  and  iv  were  copyrighted 
in  1SS4;  ii,  1SS6;  v  and  vi,  1SS7;  vii,  lSSS. 

Sec  entry  under  Deane  for  the  chapter  on  the  Caiiots,  iii.  1 .5S. 
For  other  references  to  their  discovery  of  America,  see  the  indices 
to  volumes  i,  ii,  and  iv. 

P'or  Sebastian  Cabot's  voyage  to  the  La  Plata  country,  viii.  3S4. 

Cited  as  Winsok,  America. 

6y 


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'11   ! 


;;i  I 


rjLW'. .'  II  '.ti.mu  -la.j.-i|iiila-u.«mj.i.iOTg,5Mii|^Mifaiifa 


..M!!J 


WiXSOR,  cotitiuiicd. 

Cliristophcr  Columbus,  and  how  he  received  and 
imparted  the  spirit  of  discovery.  By  Justin  Wiiisor. 
— Boston,   IIoughton-Milllin,   1S92.    '  (3064.29) 

pp.  674.     Svo. 

The  appendix,  '•  Tlie  Geof^rapliical  Hesiilts,"  52(;-6(-(),  is  espe- 
cially valuable;  it  is  illustrated  with  facsimiles  ami  sketches  from 
all  tlie  more  sij^uilicant  early  maps. 

For  Cabot,  see  339-346.    Cabot  map,  624-627. 

Ilarrisse's  Discovery  of  North  America. 

Two  articles  in  the  New  York  A'(f//V>//,  September  j(;  ami  Octo- 
her  6,  iS<)2,lv.  244-246,264-266.  (S50.12.5!;) 

In  the  first,  Dr.  Wiiisor  discusses  the  new  facts  about  the  Ca- 
bots,  which  claims  to  have  discovered  Ilarrissc. 

Cabotiaxa. 

A  review  of  Tarducci's  Ctihot,  in  the  iVi:;'  York  Nation,  7  De 
ccmber  1893,  Ivii.  433-434. 

P'or  other  notes  on  Cabot  literature,  in  the  JVutioii,  see  Ix.  126, 
Ixiii.  253. 

Tlie  Cabot  controversies  and  the  right  of  England 
to    North    America,  bv  Justin    Winsor. — CambridJ^e, 

1S96. 

Read  before  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  ( /V^^c/cii'-' 
iiijii'<,  3d  ser.  vi.)     Reprinted,  100  copies;  16  pp.  Svo.  24S.  12.26 

'J'he  numerous  extracts  taken  from  Dr.  Winsor's  CoiilroT-iTsfrs, 
which  he  has  called  '*  a  survey  of  tlie  crucial  literature,"  for  the 
notes  to  the  present  Bibiiographv,  fj:ive  the  best  proof  of  its  value. 
Sec  in  addition,  the  notes  under  Deank,  above. 

Baptista  Agnese,  and  American  Cartography  in  the 
sixteenth  century,  by  Justin  Winsor. — Cambridge, 
1897. 

))p.  16.  Svo. 

"  Rcpriutcd,  One    Hundred  Cojjics,  from  the  I'roceediugs  of  the 
Massachusetts  Historical  Society,  May,  1S97." 
There  is  a  reference  to  Cabot  on  |)p.  11.12. 


WooDlU'RY. 

The  violation  of  the  fisheries  to  the  discovery  and 
settlenuut  of  North  America  by  Charles  Levi  Wood- 
bury.— Boston,  18S0.     II. 

pp.  26.     Svo. 

Read  bcfiirethc  Massachusetts  Fisli  and  Game  Protection  Soci- 
ety at  Boston,  and  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society,  C(  n- 
cord, June  iSSo. 

Claim  for  Rasiiues  antedating  Cabot,  pj).  4-7. 

70 


how  he  received  and 
y.  By  Justin  Winsor. 
S92.    '    '  (3064- -9) 

Hcsiilts,"  52i;-6('m),   is  cspe- 
Lcsiniilcs  and  sketches  from 

624-627. 

Ii  America. 

'oil,  Seplcinlicr  21;  Mtid  Octo- 
(850.12.55) 
11!    new  i;icls    about   the  Ca- 
llarrisse. 


Zkui. 

Ciiovanni  e  Sehastiano  Cahnto.  notizia  di  Au^usto 
Zeri.— Roma,  18S1.     II. 

l)p.  1 1.  niiip.  Svo. 

"  Estratto  dalhi  Jii  vista  MuriUiiiiii,"     March  iSSi. 

ZlRLA. 

Di  Marco  Polo  e  degli  altri  viai^giatori  Veneziani. 
pill  illusiri  ciissertazioni  del  P.  Ah.  D.  Placido  Ziirla. 
— Venezia,  1S18-1S19.     II. 

2  vols.  ,\  maps.  410, 
For  the  Cabots,  see  ii.  274-JS6. 

C;ivcs  a  plottiiifr  of  Cabot's  voyajje,  extending  down  the  eastern 
seaboard  ot  the  United  States. 


e  Nr-v  York  Nation,  7  Do 
in    the    iVatioii,  see  Ix.  126, 

I  the  right  of  England 
Winsor. — Camhridge, 

istorical    Society,  ( Procrcd- 
:s;  16  pp.  Svo.  24S.12.26 

)r.  Winsor's  Coiitrovrrsi'rs, 
crucial    literature,"  for  the 
e  the  best  proof  of  its  value. 
K,  alcove. 

an  Cartography  in  the 
Winsor. — Camhridge, 


from  the  Proceedings  of  the 
v,  KS97." 

I1.12. 


>    to  the  discovery  and 
IV  Cliarles  Levi  Wood- 


and  Game  Protection  Soci- 
re  Historical  Society,  C(  n- 

,  pp.  4-7. 


S/ioz'j  d-  Faniham,  Printers, 


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